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This 10 page paper is an “addition” to “The Odyssey” by Homer, and depicts a new adventure that the men meet on their way home to Ithaca.
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the Kingdom of the Dead. It attempts to copy Robert Fagles translation. Discussion Since Odysseus is brave and clever, and yet has a great many human failings, it seems logical
that he might decide not to follow Circes commands and try to avoid having to go to the Kingdom of the Dead. In order to do this he will try
and sail a different course than the one he should set, but this will put him in Poseidons path, and the god is already furious with him. It will be
a battle between Poseidon and the seas he controls and Odysseus and his crew. Now down we went to the ship, drawn up at the waters edge, And launched
her into the wine dark sea, As the lovely enchantress watched and waited, And gave us her farewell gift, a wind to blow us, Straight and true, to the
dark end of the world, And the boundary where the Ocean River meets the deadly night Of the Kingdom of the Dead. But once we were away from the
ensorcelled island, I had the helmsman steer a new course, away from Death, Back toward Ithaca, going by a roundabout way, Leaving the Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our
backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the island. For seven days we sailed, as the sun beat down, and the waves Glittered and
danced in the light like sparks from a fire, And the wind seemed true and held us to our course, Toward home, or so we thought, believing in our luck
And skill, in escaping the snares of the sorceress, And the terror of the Land of the Dead. But on the eighth day, the wind died, and the sea grew
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