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

episode of the Odyssey oh Odysus, how things are moving along for you.

Before we dive in, just here with your periodic reminder that if you want to read the Odyssey for yourself,

please don't read this translation.

It's very old and very dated. You can and should read Emily Wilson's translation,

which is so good. That's the translation I worked off of when I was doing the regular

Odyssey episodes in the show. It was so accessible and beautiful and just it is the perfect one in my opinion but I would never break copyright like that so we are reading this one

This is Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, book 8.

Now when the child of mourning, rosy-fingered dawn appeared.

Alcinuous and Odysseus both rose, and Alcinuous led the way to the

fiation place of assembly, which was near the ships.

When they got there, they sat down side by side on a seat of polished stone while

Minerva took the form of one of Alcinuous's servants and went round the town in order to help Odysseus

to get home.

She went up to the citizens, man by man, and said, Aldermen and town councilors of the fiations,

come to the assembly, all you, and listen to the stranger who has just come off a long voyage

to the house of King Alcinuous. He looks like an immortal god.

With these words she made them all want to come and they flock to the assembly till seats and

standing room were alike crowded.

Everyone was struck with the appearance of Odysseus, for Minerva had beautified him about the head and shoulders,

making him look taller and stouter than he really was,

that he might impress the Phaeacians favorably as being a very remarkable

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