The Odyssey: Odysseus Remembers Ithaca
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Transcript
ODYSSEUS: I am Odysseus, son of King Laertes, famed
on earth beneath, in heaven above, for cunning.
My home is Ithaca, standing out in the sea and marked by one tall mountain
forest-clad. All round
are many other islands lying close together, further east and closer to the mainland, but Ithaca sits low on the horizon westward. She is a hard rough place,
but a good mother of men;
nowhere in the world is any place sweeter than home.
on earth beneath, in heaven above, for cunning.
My home is Ithaca, standing out in the sea and marked by one tall mountain
forest-clad. All round
are many other islands lying close together, further east and closer to the mainland, but Ithaca sits low on the horizon westward. She is a hard rough place,
but a good mother of men;
nowhere in the world is any place sweeter than home.
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