Sparknotes penelope odyssey summarry1/21/2024 The goddess gives her extra stature and beauty to inflame their hearts. Athena now gets Penelope to make an appearance before her suitors. But Amphinomus doesn’t go, despite being “fraught with grave forebodings,” for Athena has fixed his death at the hands of Telemachus (18.176). He gives him a veiled warning to leave the palace and return to his own land. Fully aware of the bloodshed to come and overcome by pity for Amphinomus, Odysseus pulls him aside and tells him that Odysseus will soon be home. One of them, the moderate Amphinomus, toasts him and gives him food. The suitors congratulate Odysseus on his victory. Soon, Odysseus knocks down Irus and stops short of killing him. Irus soon regrets his decision and tries to escape, but by now, the suitors have noticed him and egg on the fight for the sake of their own entertainment. Nicknamed as Irus, he thinks that he will beat the old man easily but Athena gives Odysseus extra strength and stature. Eumaeus returns to his hut, leaving Odysseus alone with Telemachus and the suitors.Īrnaeus, a rash beggar, walks into the palace and insults Odysseus, challenging him to a boxing match. Odysseus, however, does not want the suitors to see him going toward the queen’s room. The reports of this cruelty reach Penelope, who asks to bring the beggar to him so that she can question him about Odysseus. When Odysseus returns insult, Antinous hits him with a stool that disgusts even the other suitors. The suitors give him food unwillingly and Antinous humiliates him. Odysseus gets a similar welcome at the palace. On the way they meet Melanthius, a subordinate of the suitors, who heaps scorn on Eumaeus and kicks his beggar companion. Meanwhile, Eumaeus and Odysseus head for the town in Telemachus’s footsteps. Theoclymenus then reveals that Odysseus is in Ithaca at this very moment. Telemachus tells Penelope of the news he received of Odysseus in Pylos and Sparta, but he does not reveal that he has seen Odysseus with his own eyes in Eumaeus’s hut. He meets Theoclymenus and Piraeus in the palace hall and tells Piraeus not to bring his gifts from Menelaus to the palace as the suitors might kill him and steal the gifts. Telemachus leaves Odysseus at Eumaeus’s hut and reaches his palace where mother Penelope and nurse Eurycleia receive him with tears.
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