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S8E2 - You Odyssey This: Beach Party Gone Wrong

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

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The Odyssey of Odysseus

The shores of this island were surrounded by treacherous rocks, and the violent sea was pushing him forward. Odysseus knew he needed to swim away, or he would be smashed to pieces. He could only see part of the beach, but then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something gold and shiny off to his left. It looked like a person? Someone with gilded armor and bathed in gold light? It was the goddess Athena standing on the shore. The current carried the weary sailor to the shore and even up a small river inland, where he collapsed on the ground barely alive.

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