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#OdyDiction “...sodden...” -saturated with liquid. Book 10

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#OdyCharacter “Not until you consent to swear, goddess, a binding oath...Straight away she began to swear the oath...” Circe is willing to do whatever it takes just to be with Odysseus. Book 10

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#OdyQuote “Odysseus, why just sit there, struck dumb, eating your heart out, not touching food or drink?” Circe cares about Odysseus and gives advice. Book 10

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#OdyDiction Book8 “purser” - a person in a ship who does nothing but handle money and does no hard lifting.

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#OdyCharacter “No doubt he’s been to sea...but not as a purser.” The hero’s eyes went cold. He picked up a discus and threw it with such a rush of wind that the Phaeacians hit the deck.” Odysseus does not like to be messed with or pushed around and shouldn’t be.

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#OdyCharacter “He began by singing of Achilles and Odysseus, and this brought tears to that hero’s eyes.” This shows that Odysseus is sentimental.

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#OdyDiction Book 7 “...we will give thought to speeding his journey home.” They will think about giving him a ride home.

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#OdyQuote “With this he rose and sat down again in the ashes of the fire.” When someone does this it is a token of grief.

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#OdyDiction “dazzled” - amazed

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#OdyCharacter “Athena now intervened to make these people foster his journey home.” This shows that Athena will go far just to let Odysseus go home.

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#OdyCharacter “Odysseus has to choose between touching her knees in the gesture of a supplicant or staying back and trusting words.” This shows that Odysseus realized that this might be his only chance in getting home so he plays it safe.

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#OdyCharacter “The maids run away at the sight of the brine-encrusted stranger, but Nausicaa stood her ground.” This shows that Nausicaa is brave. Book 6

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#OdyQuote “Everyday for the last seven years he sat on the same rock gazing out to the sea weeping for home and Penelope.” He does not want to be on the island he just resort wants to go home. Book 5

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#OdyQuote “Poseidon soon solves his dilemma by smashing it to bits.” Book 5

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#OdyDiction “...buried under a wall of water.”

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#OdyDiction "...the hides of seals which stank to high heaven."

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#OdyDiction "He had beaten himself black and blue..."

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#OdyQuote "...all because of me and my mad passion for Trojan Paris."

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#OdyQuote "...for he cannot help but assume the worst."

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#OdyPlot "...Telemachus sets out for the kingdom of Menelaus."