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Athena disguises Odysseus in mist and leads him to the palace. He throws his arms around Arete’s knees and asks for help.
Alcinous and Arete receive him as a guest. The palace is luxurious, with gardens, and the Phaeacians are skilled sailors. Odysseus tells them his name and his troubles, and Alcinous promises a ship and an escort to Ithaca.
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So he prayed there, the much-enduring goodly Odysseus, while the two strong mules bore the maiden to the city. But when she had come to the glorious palace of her father, she halted the mules at the outer gate, and her brothers [5] thronged about her, men like the immortals, and loosed the mules from the wagon, and bore the raiment within; and she herself went to her chamber. — Homer, Odyssey VII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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