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Often appears with: royal patronage · odysseus narration · night-long storytelling · hospitality and the guest · hospitality and guest-right · history and the writing of history · counsel and advisers to rulers · assemblies, councils, and senates
Usually: narrative (1) · praise (1)
In Phaeacia, Arete and Echeneus praise Odysseus, Alcinous orders him to stay until the next day, and asks him to recount whether any comrades who sailed with him to Troy died in his absence.
Crete to the hill of sacred Athens, yet had he no joy of her; for Artemis slew her ere that in sea-girt Dia, by reason of the witness of Dionysus. “And Maera and Clymene I saw, and hateful Eriphyle, who took fine gold for the price of her dear lord’s life. But I cannot tell or name all the wives and daughters of the heroes that I saw; ere that, the immortal night would wane. Nay, it is even now time to sleep, whethe…