Such at the palace of Alcinoues were the
gods' splendid gifts.
Here long-tried royal Odysseus stood and gazed. Then after he had gazed
his heart's fill on all, he quickly crossed the threshold and came
within the house.
NOTES
=Phaeacia=:--The land of the Phaeacians, on the Island of Scheria, or
Corcyra, the modern Corfu.
=Athene=:--Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, skill, and science. She was
interested in war, and protected warlike heroes.
=Cyclops=:--One of a race of uncouth giants, each of whom had but a
single eye, which was in the middle of the forehead.
=Nausithoues=:--The king of the Phaeacians at the time they entered
Scheria.
=Hades=:--The realm of souls; not necessarily a place of punishment.
=Artemis=:--Another name for Diana, goddess of the moon.
=Taygetus and Erymanthus=:--Mountains in Greece.
=Leto=:--The mother of Artemis.
=Delos=:--An island in the Aegean Sea.
=Ogygia=:--The island of the goddess Calypso, who held Odysseus captive
for seven years.
=Hephaestus=:--Another name for Vulcan, the god of the under-world. He
was a skilled worker in metal.
=Poseidon=:--Neptune, god of the ocean.
=Land-shaker=:--Neptune.
=Marathon=:--A plain eighteen miles from Athens. It was here that the
Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B.C.
=Erectheus=:--The mythical founder of Attica; he was half man and half
serpent.
=THE PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES IN THIS SELECTION=
Al cin' o us ([)a]l sin' [+o] _[)u]_ s)
Ap ei' ra ([.
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