Poseidon: God of the Sea
The Ancients
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Polythemes and the Phaeasian Court
Odysseus of Ithaca, son of Lyertes, most cunning of the Greeks. But cunning is no match for the force of nature. And so I have been denied my homecoming for ten years. The Phaeasians share piteous looks but it is their king Alkynus who alone Odysseus watches. He cuts the shape of a man bent low by the weight of his ears. A sight he has not seen for near a decade. Caprice AlKynus says at last, unpredictability. It is the sea's only promise. But we mortals are held to a higher standard. Laws enshrined by Zeus himself. You
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