The hero Odysseus endured many grave troubles, many terrible dangers, returning from Troy to Ithaca. He lost all his companions on the way, they all died, and evil fate spared none of them. After long wanderings, Odysseus ended up on the island of Ogygia with the nymph Callipso. For seven long years Odysseus had to languish with the mighty sorceress Callipso. It was the eighth year. Odysseus yearned for his native Ithaca and his family, he begged to be released to his homeland, but Kallipso did not let him go. Finally, the Olympian gods took pity on Odysseus. At a meeting of the gods, Zeus, at the request of his daughter, the goddess Pallas Athena, decided to return Odysseus to his homeland, despite the fact that the god of the sea Poseidon pursued Odysseus everywhere on the sea, angry with him for blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon.
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