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After staying some days on the island of Scheria, home of the Phaecaens, Odysseus is finally granted his wish of goign back home to Ithaca. Alkinoos waits for the next day to arrive to load the ship with all of Odysseus's gifts and belongings. The ship was set to leave as soon as the sun went down. While on the boat he sleeps the whole night while the crew agreed to take him back home. When they reach Ithaca, he remains asleep and without waking him, the Phaecians unload the ship and leave odysseus asleep on land.

After waking up, Odysseus feels that he has been betrayed by the crew and they have left him on a different island, until he encounters athena who is disguised once again and convinces him that he is in Ithaca. When the phaecians returned home, poseidon had figured out that they had helped Odysseus and Zeus granted him permission to punish them by turning their ship to stone and drowning the crew. After Alkinoos finds out he decides to never help strangers again. Athena then tells him of his sons journey of finding his father.