Odyssey

What's the summary of the swineherd's story in The Odyssey?

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Eumaeus, the swineherd, explains that when he was a baby he was stolen from his home by Phoenician pirates and a maid in his father's household. Laertes, Odysseus's father, bought him out of slavery in Ithaca and raised him as one of his own children.