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Hermes is sent to Calypso’s island with Zeus’s order. Calypso is angry and sorrowful but obeys. Odysseus refuses her offer of immortality and chooses his mortal wife and home.
Odysseus builds a raft and sails. Poseidon, returning from the Ethiopians, sees him and raises a storm. The raft breaks, and Odysseus swims for two days and nights. He reaches the shore of Scheria, where Nausicaa will find him.
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Now Dawn arose from her couch from beside lordly Tithonus, to bear light to the immortals and to mortal men. And the gods were sitting down to council, and among them Zeus, who thunders on high, whose might is supreme. — Homer, Odyssey V.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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