Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Odysseus Held Captive

"Atlas' daughter it is who holds Odysseus captive, luckless man - despite his tears, forever trying to spellbind his heart with suave, seductive words and wipe all thought of Ithaca from his mind. But he, straining for no more than a glimpse of hearth-smoke drifting up from his own land, Odysseus longs to die ..."

Athena,
Book 1, lines 65-71
The Odyssey

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