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Calypso

The Odyssey Book 7

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Arete
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Eumaeus

1. Initial: The initial situation is when Odysseus arrives at the palace. and asks for help getting home. (Page 86: '"There Odysseus stood gazing, after all his tribulations.When he had taken it in he crossed the threshold with brisk steps, and entered the hall...'Arete, daughter of divine Rhexenor! I come in my distress, a suppliant to your husband and to your knees.Yes, and to these who sit at meat; may the gods grant them to be happy while they live; and may each have children to inherit his wealth and the honourable place which the people has given him. Now I beseech you to send me home to my native land without delay, for I have long suffered tribulation far from my friends.'") Reversal:

The Odyssey Book 5

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Calypso
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Hermes

1. Initial: The initial situation is when Odysseus is stuck on Calypso's island, against his will. (Page 64: "He says there's a man here, one of those who were nine years fighting before Priam's town, and the most unlucky of them all. It took them ten years to capture that city: then they set out for home, but on the way they offended Athena, and she raised a bad wind and a heavy sea against them. All his good comrades were drowned, but he as it seems was carried here by winds and waters. That's the man, and the orders are to send him away at once; for it is not his fate to perish in this place...")
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