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T en years have passed since the fall of Troy, and the great hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and annoying group of suitors have overrun Odysseus’s palace and pillaged his land and continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus even tho the suitors wish to marry her for the throne. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus’s son, wants desperately to throw them out of the palace but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince so they may take over the throne without an issue. Will Antinous's plan work? Will he take over the throne? and will Odysseus make it home before his kindgoms overthrone? Read the Odyssey and find out about this heart stopping tale of oddysseus's crazy adventure and the aggrevating suitors who wish to take his palace.