The Odyssey - Deleted Ending

Homer's Odyssey kind of ends on a flat note. At the end of the poem, Odysseus and his family are about to fight against the townsfolk in a big civil war battle, when Athena comes and says, "give peace a chance" and then they stop fighting and the story ends.

Meanwhile, all throughout the poem, Homer alludes to what Odysseus' fate will be after the events of the Odyssey, and according to him, it will be something along the lines of this.