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277 quotes from The Odyssey: ‘Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.’
The Odyssey, Book 1, lines 228-231. Athena tells Telemachus that Odysseus is alive and being held captive on a faraway island. Book 1 of The Odyssey is titled "Athena inspires the prince" and that is what the goddess is attempting to do.
The Odyssey, Book 5, lines 167-172. The goddess and nymph Calypso keeps Odysseus as a sex slave on her island of Ogygia for seven years. Here the narrator describes Odysseus’ typical day in captivity: weeping by day because he is prevented from returning home, and being an unwilling lover by night.
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Context: Calypso, commanded by the gods, permits Ulysses to build a small boat and leave her island. Although Neptune sends a terrible storm to torment him, Ulysses, with the help of Leucothea, a...
Important Quotes. “Tell me about a complicated man, Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost. when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went, and who he met, the pain. he suffered on the sea, and how he worked. to save his life and bring his men back home. He failed, and for their own mistakes they died.
