A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 509
n, and promised him immortality if he would remain with her, butafter eight years he longed for his home, and Athena (Minerva) re-quested Hermes to carry to Calypso a command fiom Zeus to letUlysses go. Calypso showed him how to make a raft, and ineighteen days he came to Scheria, the home of the… … Ulysses and the Sirens. Nausicaa and her maidens. She was the daughter of Alcinous andArete. She took him to her fathers palace, where the minstrelDemodocus sang the fall of Troy. The hero wept, and when ques-tioned of the reason of his grief, related his whole history. Thenking Alcinous prepared a…
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