Odyssey--Full

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Blind storyteller of the Iliad and Odyssey

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Homer

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Long poem about a hero's adventures

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Epic poem

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Story begins in medias res

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in the middle of the plot

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Odysseus's wife

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Penelope

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Odysseus's son

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Telemachus

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Greek code for treating guests

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Xenia

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Odysseus' home

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Ithaca

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Beginning of The Odyssey

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The Trojan War

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Odysseus' wife:

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waiting for 20 years, raising their son, fighting off suitors

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Odysseus' state when first introduced

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Crying on the beach