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odysseus feared he would never return home and that he would never see his wife penelope
Poseidon tried to punish Odysseus by laying a curse on him, saying that he (Odysseus) would never set foot on Ithaca without divine intervention (help from the gods).
odysseus continually boasted as he left the island of the cyclopes that his name was odysseus and he was from ithica and that he had beaten polyphemos at his own game. this pissed off polyphemos and made him pray to his daddy poseidon that odysseus would never make it home.
Odysseus never pretended to be mad or crazy?
Poseidon told Odysseus that he would never again set foot on the land of his kingdom, Ithaca, after he boasted to Poseidon that he defeated Troy without the help of the gods.