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The Odyssey is a Greek word meaning “the tale of Odysseus.” Odysseus, the King of Ithaca; husband of Penelope; father of Telemachus; and son of Laertes was not able to return home after the war he was once in: the Trojan War. Stuck on an island, he is ....

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.... Gods is a swift and powerful one. However, Aegisthus had been warned: “we ourselves had sent Hermes, the keen-eyed Giant-slayer, to warn him neither to kill the man nor to court his wife” (pg. 4). Aegisthus ignored the warning, killing Agamemnon and courting his wife. Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, killed Aegisthus to avenge his father’s death. The gods saw this as swift, fair, and powerful justice: “And now Aegisthus has paid the final price for all his sins” (pg. 4). The suitors, led by Antinous and Eurymachus, expect justice to be served when Telemachus sails to Pylos without telling them. “[The] Suitors had emb ....