engl220 odyssey books xx-xxiv
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- 1. Book XX
- 2. Neither Odysseus nor Penelope slept well
- 3. Athena assures Odysseus he will prevail against the suitors
- 4. Next morn, when Odysseus hears Penny weeping, he prays to Zeus
- 5. Zeus sends thunder as a sign
- 6. A loyal maid hopes the thunder signals the deaths of the suitors
- 7. Servants readied the house for a feast day
- 8. Eumaeus arrives with some pigs
- 9. Telemachus dresses for battle
- 10. Melanthios the goatherd arrives and taunts the old beggar
- 11. Philoetius, the loyal cowherd arrived
- 12. The cowherd expresses sympathy for the beggar, who reminds him of Odysseus
- 13. Eumaeus and Philoetius pray for their masters safe return
- 14. All went inside and were served dinner
- 15. Suitor Ctesippus threw a heifers foot at the old beggar
- 16. Telemachus gives all of the suitors a sound scolding
- 17. Suitor Agelaus tells Telemachus he should order his mother to marry
- 18. Telemachus refuses, and Athena sets the suitors to witless laughter
- 19. Theoclymenus foretells disaster
- 20. He saw the walls dripping blood
- 21. And the ghosts of the suitors
- 22. Laughed at, Theoclymenus leaves
- 23. Hidden behind a pillar, Penelope has listened to the entire exchange
- 24. Book XXI
- 25. In the morning, Penelope retrieves Odysseus special bow
- 26. The bow was a gift from Iphitus, later killed in anger by Hercules
- 27. She carried the bow to the suitors
- 28. Penelope announces that she will marry the man who can easily string the bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axes.
- 29. Weeping, Eumaeus set the bow before the suitors
- 30. Telemachus set up the axes and tried three times to string the bow
- 31. He would have gotten it on the fourth try, but his father signaled him to stop.
- 32. Penelope invites suitors to try
- 33. The suitors are unable to string the bow
- 34. Outside the gates, Odysseus reveals himself to the swineherd and cowherd
- 35. The suitors decide to quit trying to string the bow for now. It is a feast day of Apollo, after all!
- 36. Athena urges Odysseus to try the bow
- 37. Led by Antinous, the suitors are outraged
- 38. But Penelope and her son both invite the beggar to try the bow
- 39. Eumaeus put the bow into the hands of Odysseus Eurycleia locks up the maids and Philoetius closes and locks the outer gates.
- 40. Odysseus easily strings the bow
- 41. He shoots an arrow
- 42. He wins the contest
- 43. Book XXII Slaying of Suitors
- 44. Book XXIII Man and Wife
- 45. Book XXIV