A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 510
him immortality if he veould remain with her, butafter eight years he longed for his home, and Athena (Minerva) re-quested Hermes to carry to Calypso a command from Zeus to letUlysses go. Calypso showed him how to make a raft, and ineighteen days he came to Scheria, the home of the Phaeacians.Then… … Ulysses and the Sirens. Nausicaa and her maidens. She was the daughter of Alcinons andArete. She took him to her fathers palace, Avhere the minstrelDemodocus sang the fall of Troy. The hero wept, and when ques-tioned of the reason of his grief, related liis whole history. Thenking Alcinous prepared…
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