Odysseus stays with Calypso [The Hider] on Ogygia for seven years.
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Odysseus was away from his home 20 years
Odysseus was in Troy when he was away from Ithaca for 20 years. He was away from Troy for 10 years, and never revealed where he was at during that time.
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Galileo was a prisoner in his home for about 8 years before he died in 1642.
Odysseus was away from his home 20 years
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Odysseus was in Troy when he was away from Ithaca for 20 years. He was away from Troy for 10 years, and never revealed where he was at during that time.
The suitors were challenged to string Odysseus' bow and then shoot an arrow through 12 axes. None of the suitors are able to accomplish this; the bow of Odysseus had never been strung by anyone besides him. An old man was able to accomplish it; however it was later revealed that the old man was Odysseus in disguise.
20 years
because he has been gone for twenty years
10 years
20 years!
because Odysseus has been missing for years and Telemakhos is his son. She sends him on a quest to find information to find Odysseus.