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* Throughout the entire story and character history, Odysseus chose Penelope over and over again even when he has multiple more seemingly advantagous women. From the most beautiful woman in the world Helen to immortal powerful goddesses like Calypso and Circe.

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* Throughout the entire story and character history, Odysseus chose Penelope over and over again even when he has multiple more seemingly advantagous women. From the most beautiful woman in the world Helen (who is also a demigod child of Zeus) to immortal powerful goddesses (that offered him ''eternal youth'') like Calypso and Circe.
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* Throughout the entire story and character history, Odysseus chose Penelope over and over again even when he has multiple more seemingly advantagous women. From the most beautiful woman in the world Helen to immortal powerful goddesses like Calypso and Circe.
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** In one comic book adaptation, Athena arrives afterward to carry Argos' spirit away with a warm, motherly smile on her face.

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** In one comic book adaptation, Athena arrives afterward to carry Argos' Argos's spirit away with a warm, motherly smile on her face.



** And Odysseus and Telemachus being united as well for the first time since Telemachus was a baby. At first he is in complete disbelief, but then the two embrace each other tight and weep openly.

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** And Odysseus and Telemachus being united as well for the first time since Telemachus was a baby. At first first, he is in complete disbelief, but then the two embrace each other tight and weep openly.

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* Argos--Odysseus's puppy, now an elderly, neglected hound. He dies content when he finally sees his master after twenty years. Odysseus sheds a SingleTear. [[http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey17.htm#_Toc90268416 Passage deserves reading in full.]] Also a heartfelt TearJerker

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* Argos--Odysseus's puppy, now an elderly, neglected hound. He dies content when he finally sees his master after twenty years. Odysseus sheds a SingleTear. [[http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey17.htm#_Toc90268416 Passage deserves reading in full.]] Also a heartfelt TearJerkerTearJerker.
** In one comic book adaptation, Athena arrives afterward to carry Argos' spirit away with a warm, motherly smile on her face.
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* Menelaus and Helen are shown to be happily reunited after all they've been through in the [[TheIliad Trojan War.]]

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* Menelaus and Helen are shown to be happily reunited after all they've been through in the [[TheIliad [[Literature/TheIliad Trojan War.]]
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* Athena holds dawn back just to prolong Odysseus and Penelope's time together.
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* Argos--Odysseus's puppy, now an elderly, neglected hound. He dies content when he finally sees his master after twenty years. Odysseus sheds a SingleTear. [[http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey17.htm#_Toc90268416 Passage deserves reading in full.]]

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* Argos--Odysseus's puppy, now an elderly, neglected hound. He dies content when he finally sees his master after twenty years. Odysseus sheds a SingleTear. [[http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey17.htm#_Toc90268416 Passage deserves reading in full.]]]] Also a heartfelt TearJerker
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** And Odysseus and Telemachus being united as well for the first time since Telemachus was a baby. At first he is in complete disbelief, but then the two embrace each other tight and weep openly.
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* Argos--Odysseus's puppy, now an elderly, neglected hound. He dies content when he finally sees his master after twenty years. Odysseus sheds a SingleTear. [[http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey17.htm#_Toc90268416 Passage deserves reading in full.]]
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* Menelaus and Helen are shown to be happily reunited after all they've been through in the [[TheIliad Trojan War.]]

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And they live HappilyEverAfter. The end even said so.

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*When Penelope and Odysseus embrace, it's described in terms of a swimmer who comes crawling back onto the warm shore, "in joy, in joy, leaving the abyss behind."
** Made somehow even more poignant in that you would have every reason expect the shipwrecked sailor of the simile would be Odysseus, whose fate has literally been this, but the shipwrecked sailor it's talking about? Penelope.
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And they live HappilyEverAfter. The end even said so.

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[Happily Ever After]
The end said so.

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[Happily Ever After]
And they live HappilyEverAfter. The end even said so.
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[[Happily Ever After]]

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[[Happily [Happily Ever After]]After]

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And they live happily ever after!

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And they live happily ever after![[Happily Ever After]]
The end said so.
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And they live happily ever after!

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