Post #9

This week I chose to read some of The Odyssey that we aren't going to be reading in class. I read books 7 and 8, and they were both very interesting. In the beginning of the seventh book, Odysseus is going to the palace of Alcinous, where there are a people called the Phaeacians. He also meets a girl, that says she can help him. But what Odysseus doesn't know is that the girl is really Athena in disguise. Having Athena guide him, she is able to hide him from the Phaeacians, whom, had he not been disguised, he would have been harassed by them. Odysseus then goes to the palace, where the King and Queen agree to help him get home, but first he tells them his situation. The King of the Kingdom likes Odysseus so much, that he says that Odysseus can marry his daughter if he wants to.