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Odysseus was gone for twenty years, ten of which were spent on Calypso's island.
The wife of Odysseus - Penelope .
no it has never happened
Why did Odysseus want the messenger to think he had gone mad?
Yes, It would have gone for sure.
because Odysseus was gone so long they thought he was dead
Hermes helped free Odysseus from Calypso. Without him, there would be no way of explaining why Odysseus was gone from Ithaca so long. Further, Hermes helps Odysseus best the enchantress Circe. Otherwise, Odysseus would surely have been turned into a pig along with the rest of his men.
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The Cyclops, Polyphemus, is inside the cave when Odysseus and his men enter.
Odysseus tells the men to sharpen the 6 foot olive trunk.
Once he and his surviving men are back on board his ship and have gone a short distance from the island of the Cyclops, he foolishly lets Polyphemus know that Odysseus is name of the one who tricked and blinded him. In a rage Polyphemus calls upon his father Poseidon to prevent Odysseus from going home, and added that if he ever, after a long time, did get home, he would wretched and abandoned, and nothing would await him in his house but misery. And so it happened, though things did turn out alright in the end.