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The numer of references to Homers Odyssey and any additional meaning regards the suitors

"Sidney's sonnet sequence also exhibits clear references to Homeric epic, particularly Homer's Penelope. Some scholars have suggested that the 108 sonnets in the sequence represent the 108 suitors of Penelope, who play a game of striving to hit the Penelope stone in order to determine who can court her. The 119 poems are also just one number short of the number of months Ulysses spent trying to return home to Penelope in The Odyssey. The structure of the sonnet sequence, falling one month short of achieving Ulysses's journey home, can be seen as an emphasis on Sidney's failure in his pursuit of his own Penelope."

Apart from this and the title of the poem; are there any other references within the sonnetts or songs concerning the Odyssey, with the sonnets aluding to the suitors are there any other references to Greek myth or locations witin each that could be associated with the Odyssey?

We have the number of suitors and the length of months travelled are there any other references within the text.

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This is interesting but far too detailed for this short answer space.