The Shipwrecks In Homer's Odyssey

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After being crushed by forceful waves, everything was lost and destroyed including his raft and clothes. “If the wave is about 10 ft tall and the lip (top) of the wave is about 20 ft long, the wave itself weighs about 410 tons, which is equal to about 315 small cars.” (Houghington, 1 ). In the story, it says after Odysseus’s raft was destroyed by the waves, he was given a cloak from Ino that help him stay buoyant from Poseidon and Athena blows wind that guides him to land. Although, these would have a natural occurrence. Several things end up in the ocean and tons of them could be debris from other shipwrecks and this “magic cloak” he is “given” could have just been remains from other shipwrecks that scattered around across the ocean. Including
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