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Odysseus was ten years late to return home because goddess Hera protector of Troy planned difficulties for the Greek warrior who's strategic assited to the fall and destroy of her preferred citizens, and his making an enemy of the sea god Poseidon by harming his son, Polyphemus, probably didn't help.

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