Word: odysseus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Odysseus Pangalos, youthful son of that ruthless autocrat, Dictator-President Theodore Pangalos of Greece, arrived last week at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, and rushed to extract one G. Skiades, Greek merchant, from the toils of the Belgrade police...
...police were thrown into a hectic muddle. On the one hand, potent Dictator Pangalos had telegraphed imperiously from Athens, demanding the extradition of M. Skiades for embezzlement. Per contra, young Odysseus Pangalos passionately informed the police that M. Skiades had not embezzled, but had instead given shelter to a Greek maiden who, Dictator Pangalos was resolved, should not marry Odysseus...
...Odysseus testified that he had married the girl in the merchant's house, that it was from this cause alone that his enraged father demanded the extradition of kindly Hymen Skiades...
According to this information which depends for its foundation on the date of a total eclipse of the sun, Odysseus returned to his home on the island of Ithaca exactly 3103 years ago today...
Then it is Helen who is more inclined to look with favor on Orestes than is Menelaus-and Hermione grows jealous, for Helen is still Helen. The last scene is laid as Telemachus comes to the house seeking tidings of his father, Odysseus. Helen gives him a cup of wine. "He took it from her, his hand touched hers, and she smiled at him. It was as she had said; he forgot all his sorrows-as it seemed, forever. But the magic, he knew, was not in the wine...