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The Odyssey
The Odyssey by Homer, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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24chapters
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Book I
A council of the gods—Deliberations concerning Ulysses—Mercury despatched to Calypso, to bid her send Ulysses to Ithaca—Visit of Pallas, in the shape of Mentor, to Telemachus, advising him to repair to Pylos and Sparta in quest of his father, Ulysses—Revels of the suitors of Penelope—Phemius, the minstrel, and his song of the return of the Grecians—The suitors rebuked by Telemachus.
Tell me, O Muse, of that sagacious man
Who, having overthrown the sacred town
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