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One could thus make up a rough and imperfect series of analogies, such as, for instance: Raid on Egypt Great Wanderings Egyptian counterattack Laistrygones King of Egypt Circe or Kalypso Phoenician wreck Wreck of Odysseus' last ship or of the raft Thesprotia Scheria, the land of the Phaiakians: Nothing like this can, of course, be pressed, but the lying stories in themselves emphasize the element of imagination in the Odyssey as we have it. By contrast to the Great Wanderings, the lying stories link rather to the Nostoi.
I do not know how it seemed to Homer. 535-558), and Homer may have conceived some liking for his own creatures, and put off, as long as he could, their necessary slaughter. THE END OF THE ODYSSEY After the killing of the suitors and the reunion of Penelope and Odysseus, the end of the Odyssey reads like a hurried composition. The purpose of the second visit to the dead is not altogether clear. 417); and it does link the Ithakan episode with the background of the Trojan War, in a manner not uncongenial to the poet of the eleventh book, if this is he.
Then the haughty suitors came in, and all of them straightway 145 took their places in order on chairs and along the benches, and their heralds poured water over their hands for them to wash with, and the serving maids brought them bread heaped up in the baskets, and the young men filled the mixing bowls with wine for their drinking. They put their hands to the good things that lay ready before them. 150 But when they had put away their desire for eating and drinking, the suitors found their attention turned to other matters, the song and the dance; for these things come at the end of the feasting.