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Jul 2019
1h 30m

EPISODE 10 NAUSICAA

JEFF WRIGHT
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STORY  1:04:45 listening time At the same time as Athena is in Ithaka – “mentoring” Telemachus – Odysseus washes ashore the land of the Phaeacians:  badly beat up, half-starved, and totally naked.  And his only hope of receiving the xenia that he needs, is to somehow find a way to supplicate a feisty young teenage...

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