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Jul 2019
1h 33m

EPISODE 12 HOMECOMING

JEFF WRIGHT
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STORY  1:33:00 listening time Odysseus – after twenty years away – wakes up on the shores of his own dear Ithaka.  Athena provides her boy with an intelligence briefing, a reconnoiter strategy, and, of course, a disguise.  And then Odysseus launches into the most dangerous part of his homecoming journey yet:  figuring a way to...

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