Hello, this is let's Talk About Myts, baby, and I'm your host, Live. And of course, it's Friday, and that means it's another

episode of The Odyssey Odyssey but guess what this one has Odysseus in it. Oh my God I'm so excited this

series has just not that it's not obvious how big of a dork I am, but it really emphasizes it, you know?

Like I just want to get to Odysseus, even though he's kind of a dick sometimes and like definitely problematic. I just love him so much

This is Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler, Book 5.

And now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tiphonis, harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals, the gods met in counsel and with them

Jove the Lord of Thunder who is their king. Thereon Minerva began to tell them of the many sufferings of Odysseus, for she pitied him away there in the house of the nymph Calypso.

Father Jove, said she, and all you other gods that live in everlasting bliss, I hope there

may never be such a thing as a kind and well-disposed ruler anymore, nor one who will govern equitably.

I hope they will all be henceforth cruel and unjust, for there is not one of his subjects

but has forgotten Odysseus, who ruled them as though he were their father.

There he is, lying in great pain in an island where dwells the nymph Calypso, will not let him go and he cannot get back to his own country for he can find neither ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.

Furthermore, wicked people are now trying to murder his only son Telemachus, who is coming

home from Pylos and Lacedaemon where he has been to see if he can get news on his father.

What, my dear, are you talking about? replied her father.

Did you not send him there yourself because you thought it would help Odysseus to get home and punish the suitors?

Besides, you are perfectly able to protect Telemicus and to see him safely home again,

while the suitors have come hurry scurrying back without having

killed him.

When he had thus spoken, he said to his son, Mercury, Mercury, you are our messenger. Go therefore and tell Calypso we have decreed that poor Odysseus is to return home.

He is to be convoyed neither by gods nor men, but after a perilous voyage of 20 days upon a raft, he is to reach

fertile Skiria, the land of the Fayetteians, who are near of kin to the gods and will honor him as though he were one of ourselves.

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