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=__The Odyssey. Book V ( 5 ): Sweet Nymph and Open Sea__=

»CHARACTER LIST«
¤ __Hermes-__ The god's messanger boy. Zeuse's favorite son. He has sandals with wings on them so he can fly and deliver messanges to the other gods. "The Wayfinder." ¤ __Poseidon-__ God of the sea. As the suitors are Odysseus's mortal antagonists, Poseidon is his divine antagonist. He despises Odysseus for blinding his son, the cyclops Polyphemus, and constantly hampers his journey home. ¤ __Ino__- A sea nymph that sees Odysseus in the ocean and gives him her vail for luck.**
 * ¤ __Kalypso-__ The nymph* that took Odysseus in the island and kept him there. She wanted him to stay and marry her, but he didn't want to.


 * __nymph__- one of a numerous class of lesser deities of mythology, conceived of as beautiful maidens inhabiting the sea, rivers, woods, trees, mountains, meadows, etc., and frequently mentioned as attending a superior deity. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nymph)

=Well, this chapter started when Athena held a meeting at Olympus with Zeus, and told him that she wanted Odysseus to return home safely, and that she didn't like how the suitors went out to murder Telemakhos. Zeus decided that the suitors would not come across anyone, and that they would have to return home, so Telemakhos would have a safe trip. Then, he sent Hermes to tell Kalypso to let Odysseus go home to his family. He said that Odysseus would have to sail for twenty days and reach and island where they would give him gold and a boat to sail home wit. Zeus sent Hermes to tell Kalypso to let him go home. Back at the island, Kalypso gave Odysseus an axe, and lead him to a forest. She let him build his boat for four days. On the fifth day, she gave Odysseus sail cloth and stocked the ship with wine and meat for his voyage. He sailed for seventeen days, until Posiden saw him and made wirlwinds to break his boat. He swam for three more days and finally made it to land where he went up and made a bed out of leaves to sleep in.= (http://library.thinkquest.org/4553/gods.html)

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