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Book ReportThe report of Troy was written by Padraic Colum, it has 132 pages, and takes place in the ancient islands of Greece. The tommyrot of Troy is a fiction story.Even though Athena and Poseidon helped the Greeks during the trojan War, Athena turns against the Greeks and convinces Poseidon to do the same. The Greeks are hit by encounters on the managework forcet theatre and many ships are destroyed and the fleet is scattered. The war and his troubles at sea keep Odysseus away from Ithaka, for twenty years. While he was gone, his son, Telemachus, has prominent into a man, and his wife, Penelope, is overwhelmed by wooers who think Odysseus is dead. While Poseidon is away from Olympus, Penelope convinces the otherwise gods to help Odysseus return home. In disguise in Ithaka, she convinces Telemachus to look for his father. Telemachus goes to Pylos and finds disclose that Odysseus is being held prisoner by Calypso. Zeus orders that Odysseus be allowed to go home so he leav es on a raft. When he is almost home, Poseidon sees him and sends a storm that sinks his raft. Ino helps Odysseus by giving him her veil which protects him from any harm in the water. After two days of swimming, Odysseus reaches the Phaeacians and their kind king, Alcinos. The kings daughter, Nausica, finds Odysseus and takes him to the king. Odysseus tells how he and his crew first saw the Lotus-Eaters, then they docked in front of a hollow to search for food. There is wine, food, and pens full of sheep in the cave, but the caves owner, the hulk Cyclops Polyphemus, comes back and seals the cave with a giant boulder. Odysseus planned to escape by giving Polyphemus wine until he passed out. The men poke out the monsters only eye. Polyphemus cant find the men and finally rolls the boulder that was blocking the cave and puts his blazonry in front of it to catch the men as they try to pull in outside. Odysseus thought Polyphemus might do this so they hang onto the undersides of the sheep as they go out to pasture. When the men passed the entrance, Polyphemus felt only the sheeps backs and the men escaped. Aeolus, the steward of the Winds, gave Odysseus a leather sack that holds all the storm winds as a gift. Odysseus can sail home safely as long as he keeps the bag closed, but his crew opened the bag, that started a storm that blew them to the land of the Laestrygons, cannibals who destroy every ship in the fleet that one.