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Athena was planning for the suitors to die, and while Odysseus was good, he wasn't good enough to kill more than a hundred people without a little help. So she sent him to an ally- Eumaeus, faithful to Odysseus the whole time, and disgusted by the suitors. That, and it gave Ody a place to rest, recuperate, and gain information.

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