The boy scowls, and changes into his true form – the goddess Athena. She tells you that you will need to be more cunning to defeat your enemies, who have eaten and drunk in your home for ten years, and who will soon force your wife to marry one of them...

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...but for now, simply look at your land, at its bays and woods, bathed in light under a clear blue sky, for you have returned home to Ithaca…at last.



Well done Odysseus, conqueror of Troy,
king of Ithaca!