To start off...

For ten years I have been encountering struggles upon the Mediterranean Sea. I,along with my dear friend and companion Odysseus, have been captive by the goddess Calypso for seven of those long, hard years. Thankfully the great goddess Athena aided us in our time of peril and Odysseus persuades Calypso to release us and even help us in building a raft to leave her island. Although we finally had been able to leave the island, our raft had been destroyed by horrifying storms. Both Odysseus and I had washed up upon a shore of the land of the Phaeacians. There the king, Alcinous had given us a very genorous banquet in our honor and had asked us to reveal our true identities and where we came. And so we told him our tale...