![]() ![]() In the morning, Telemachus takes his leave, and a whole bunch of presents, and is about to leave when an EAGLE swoops down, carrying a goose, and Helen says this is a sign that Odysseus will soon swoop on home and take his revenge on the suitors. She appears to Telemachus and tells him to head home quickly and also warns him that those dastardly suitors are planning to ambush him and tells him how to, you know, avoid being killed by them. In Book 15, we head over to Sparta again to see Telemachus. Despite those suspicions, Eumaeus lets Odysseus stay the night. Again Odysseus makes up a fake backstory for himself, but claims that he has news that Odysseus is alive and will be home soon, but Eumaeus is having none of it, saying that too many people have come around, claiming to have news of Odysseus just to get gifts from Penelope. In Book 14, Eumaeus invites Odysseus in, not knowing who he is, and the two get to talking, mostly about - you guessed it - how great Odysseus is. Hmm… Not sure that’s a great lesson, but whatever! You do you, Phaecians! Meanwhile, Odysseus wakes up and doesn’t know where he is, so he asks a nearby shepherd (who is secretly Athena in disguise) and finds out that he is, indeed back home! Yay! He makes up a lie about who he is, wanting to make it home in secret, but then Athena reveals her identity and tells him he’s going to have to be clever to defeat the awful suitors and then disguises him as an old man and sends him to go hide out at the home of a swineherd, Eumaeus. Anyway, they quickly set about making a bunch of sacrifices to Poeseidon and promising that they’ll never help lost travelers again. ![]() King Alcinous remembered a prophecy that said Poseidon would one day turn their ship to stone and then bury the city under a mountain, proving definitively that SING no good deed goes unpunished! Sorry about that. I wish I could sleep that well! Meanwhile, Poseidon saw the Phaecians escorting Odysseus and got REAL mad that they did that, so he decided to turn their ship to stone right before they made it back home. In Book 13, Odysseus is ready to leave the Phaecians, so the king and queen load his boat with a… BOATload of gifts, and he and a crew of Phaecians set sail, and Odysseus sleeps the whole way there and is even carried off the ship and left on the shore of Ithaca, while still asleep. ![]() Meanwhile, his twenty year old son, Telemachus, who hasn’t seen his dad practically since birth, has travelled to see a couple of war buddies of Odysseus, leaving his mom alone at their palace, dealing with a bunch of horrible suitors who are also plotting to kill him when he returns! Will Telemachus make it home alive? Will Odysseus make it home EVER? Well, you’re about to find out. He then told the king and queen about all the crazy adventures he went on in the ten years after leaving the Trojan War, like listening to dangerous sirens, having a bunch of crewmates eaten by a cyclops, and then even more eaten by some giant cannibals, and even MORE eaten by a six-headed monster (I’m sensing a theme here) all before he ended up at Calypso’s place. Previously in The Odyssey, Odysseus got shipwrecked at the land of the Phaecians after being released from his captor, the goddess Calypso. Otherwise, this story is going to seem really weird. So if you’re brand new to this channel, you may need to hit that subscribe button and go back and watch my videos on Books 1-6 and 7-12. I’m Professor Pipes and today I’m talking about Books 13-18 of Homer’s The Odyssey. Hello and welcome to Piper’s Paraphrases. ![]()
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