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The Odyssey Study Guide

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by Homer
About 101 pages (30,251 words)
Odyssey Summary

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Book 15 Summary

Athena speeds to Sparta where Telemachus and Pisistratus are asleep in the palace of Menelaus. She comes to Telemachus in a dream telling him that he needs to return to Ithaca quickly because she fears the suitors will win his mother's hand in marriage. She tells him that they are planning to ambush him and reveals how to avoid it. Also, she advises him to go first to Eumaeus' home when he arrives, and Eumaeus will tell Penelope of his safe return. After waking, Telemachus tells Menelaus and Helen that he has to return home and accepts the gifts that they bestow. As he leaves, an eagle carrying a goose flies down beside him, and Helen believes it is an omen that Odysseus is about to come home and have his revenge on.....

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