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Kendall thinks this character map is important because it shows how every character in the book somehow connects back to Odysseus. It shows how all of them are important to the book and in a way all have helped out Odysseus somehow.

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The travels of Odysseas (Ulysses in English) were real and described by more than one poets of the Antiquity. Homer gives specific details about places and persons, which archaeologists later corroborated. Certain fictional elements, naturally found in poetic work, do not reduce the historical content. Serious archaeologists (e.g. Doerpfeld) analyze the rhapsodies and they propose readings of the Odyssey as a history book.

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