BOOK 23
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- Created on: 05-06-14 12:38
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- Book 23
- Eurycliea goes to wake Penelope
- Penelope is angry that she's been woken because this was the first time that she'd be asleep since Odysseus left
- Penelope doesn't believe Eurycliea that Odysseus has returned
- Eurycliea says she's seen proof and has seen his scar
- she tells him that he was the stranger and that him and Telemachus have concealed it till all the suitors were killed
- she tells her that all the suitors are dead
- When Penelope sees Odysseus she says nothing but just stares as him
- Telemachus doesn't understand why she is so 'hard-hearted'
- Penelope doesn't know what to do but she knows that she will soon find out If it is him
- Penelope pictures Odysseus how he looked 20 years ago and struggles to recognise him
- Odysseus puts on a feast
- any passers by will assume that Penelope has married a suitor
- this will delay the news that all the suitors are dead
- Penelope tells Eurycliea to move the great bed Odysseus built outside of their room
- this is a test
- Odysseus built this bed so that it was intertwined into an olive tree
- because of this it couldn't be moved
- Odysseus is deeply offended because this means someone has cut down his bed
- this is proof that this is Odysseus
- Penelope throws her arms around him
- shows she is extremely wise
- Odysseus wept as he held Penelope
- this is proof that this is Odysseus
- Athene delayed dawn so that they could spend a long night together
- Odysseus tells Penelope his future that Teirsias told him
- he must go to a country that thinks an oar is a winnowing fan and tell them of Lord Poseidon
- and build a temple of Odysseus
- he must go to a country that thinks an oar is a winnowing fan and tell them of Lord Poseidon
- Odysseus tells Penelope his future that Teirsias told him
- Odysseus tells Penelope his Odyssey
- to supplement all the suitors have taken they will raid and get the people of Ithaca to contribute
- The swineherd, cowherd, Odysseus and Telemachus put on their armour
- Eurycliea goes to wake Penelope
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