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By: Edwin Rivera and Tommy Dean
1. Why is it important that only a few people know Odysseus' true identity?
2. In book 19, Odysseus presents many fallacies to Penelope. What are a few reasons behind his actions?
1. Why did the suitors disrespect Odysseus?
2. do you think it was fate or mere coincidence that Odysseus unknowingly defended his father.
Imagery: "Close to the fire her women drew her favorite chair/ with its whorls of silver and ivory, inlaid rings./ The craftsmen who made it years ago, Icmlius, added a footrest under the seat itself, / mortised into the frame,/ over it all was draped a heavy fleece.
Epic Simile: "As she listened on, her tears flowed and soaked her cheeks as the heavy snow melts down from the high mountain ridges, snow the West Wind piles there and the warm East Wind thaws and the snow, melting, swells the rivers to overflow their banks.
"Night shrouds your heads, your faces, down to your knees- cries of mourning are bursting into fire-cheeks rivering tears-the walls and the crossbeams dripping dank with blood!"
So he warned, and alert Penelope heard him, wheeled on the maid and tongue-lashed her smartly:: "Make no mistake, you brazen, shameless b****, none of your ugly work escapes me either- you will pay for it with your life, you will! How well you knw- you heard from your own lis- that I meant to probe this stranger in our house and ask about my husband- my heart breaks for him.
Odysseus returns home, but does not return as himself (his wife believes that Odysseus was a companion of Odysseus at Troy.) Later on, his nurse was bathing him and found the scar which identified him as Odysseus. The nurse reveals his presence when Odysseus tells her how crucial it is that she stays quiet so that he can go and do his thing without getting killed by the suitors. Odysseus goes back to talk to his wife and then the wife goes upstairs.
The book begins with Odysseus lying wide awake in his be plotting the death of the suitors, anger rising within him. Then Athena came form the heavens to remind him that he was at home with his wife and child, trying to calm him. Still lying in bed he would daydream of his wife and listen to her sleeping. Finally, after showing resentment for the gods he got out of bed and began to face the day. He went into the suitors chamber the suitors promptly threw an ox hove at him for intruding in their palace the chapter ended with Telemachus scorning the suitors for their rude comments and actions to the stranger.