Hello, this is, let's talk about myths baby and I am your host live here with more of

the Odyssey I feel like these introductions could have more to them but every time I sit down to read you

all the Odyssey I just get so pumped that I get to cover more Odysseus that I just I can't wait. I mean it's Odysseus you guys.

I will just note because I've already spotted a line that will be interesting. I will remind you

all that this is not the ideal translation, especially not in 2020. No, this is the public domain which means it's very old and I can legally read it to you all without

breaking horrible copyright laws. So I'm going to, but if you want to read the Odyssey without listening to me and you just want to learn more about

this incredible wonderful book, please read Emily Wilson's translation.

It is a dream. So on that note, this is Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler,

Book 6.

So here Odysseus slept, overcome by sleep and toil, but Minerva went off to the country and city of the Fayetteians, a people who used to live in the fair town of Hyperia near the lawless Cyclops.

Now the Cyclops were stronger than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithuis moved them thence and settled them in Skaria, far from all other people.

He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the land

among his people. But he was dead and gone to the house of Hades and King Alcinuous whose councils were inspired of heaven was now raining.

To his house then did Minerva High in furtherance of the return of Odysseus.

She went straight to the beautifully decorated bedroom in which there slept a girl who was as

lovely as a goddess, Nausicaa, daughter to King Alcinuous.

Two maid servants were sleeping near her, both very pretty, one on either side of the doorway which

was closed with well-made folding doors. Minerva took the form of the famous sea captain Dymass's daughter, who was a bosom friend of Nausicaa,

and just her own age.

Then coming up to the girl's bedside like a breath of wind, she hovered over her head and said,

Nausicaa, what can your mother have been about to have such a lazy daughter?

Here are your clothes all lying in disorder, yet you are going to be married almost immediately, and should not only be well dressed yourself, but should find good clothes for those who attend you.

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