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Okay, we are in our part three discussion of the Odyssey. We got through books one through

12 in parts one and two and now we're going to get through the final 12 books all in the third part probably hopefully

probably even if we have to rush which is something Odysseus would never do.

In fact, that's the kind of the way I wanted to start this episode, talking about the fact

that instead of rushing to see his wife and family he goes through a lot of

disguises and testing makes use of all his Odysseus powers for deception I think even more so than he has in the previous 12 books so even

Athena remarks on this she's very impressed with this he's dropped off on Ithaca by Alsanous's people, the Faiian people,

their magic boat, basically self-driving Tesla of boats, drops him off.

He's left on the coast in sheets.

There's kind of Odysseus is reborn moment.

And then Athena covers Ithaca and a mist so he won't recognize it immediately and she herself

shows up as a shepherd. He supplicates himself. Very usual thing. You got to touch their knees, right?

If you ever get time transported back to ancient Greece, just remember to touch someone's

knees first thing.

And then he tells her a lie.

She asks, you know, she's acting like she's a shepherd.

She actually then tells him it's Ithaca and then asks where, what his story is and he tells

like some variation on a, I think it's a different life story every time

that he tells to people just some made up thing but correct me if I'm wrong about

that but I think he's always from Crete in these stories.

Yeah, what he chooses to focus on is slightly different each time.

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