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What character in The Odyssey does Homer repeatedly refer to as being “of the bright owl-eyes”?

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She’s the goddess of wisdom.

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And by the way, did you know that The Odyssey is set about 500 years before it was first told? Homer composed it around 700 B.C.E., but the events occur around 1200 B.C.E.

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That doesn’t make a huge difference to the casual reader today—it’s all ancient Greek—but for comparison, that spread would be akin to us reading now about the harrowing circumnavigation of Ferdinand Magellan.

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