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Homer: The OdysseyGrade 7dialectic Stage

Ulysses on His Raft

Hermes orders Calypso to release Ulysses. She offers him immortality if he stays, but he refuses. He builds a raft. Poseidon wrecks it. Ulysses barely survives.

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