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S8E6 - You Odyssey This: Arrows and A-Rivals

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

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Odysseus and the Goddess of War Strategy and Wisdom

Odysseus had no right to expect Penelope to have waited for him. The women were supposed to still be there no matter how long or how far their husbands strayed. Odysseus hobbled along down the beaches of Ithaca in search of someone to talk to and provide more information on what had really been going on all these years in his kingdom. Luckily, it didn't take too long before he saw a man in the distance. It was one of his old friends and former servant, Yumaeus, a pig farmer who had lived on Ithaca his entire life. He knew better than to go against Athena's plan, so he simply walked with

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