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Summary:  (Ivey)
Summary: -Odysseus tells Eurycleia to wake up everyone and tell them to come downstairs -Eurycleia wakes up Penelope first and she doesn't believe her at first -She tells Penelope the story of what had happened earlier in the evening -Penelope walks downstairs and is in shock -Odysseus tells everyone to leave so he can prove himself to Penelope -He also tells everyone to wash up and prepare the big party so, people will think a wedding is occurring and won't worry about the suitor's deaths -While Odysseus and Penelope are talking, she tests Odysseus by asking a maid to move his bed, knowing that nobody can move it. -The test works and Penelope is finally assured that he is the real Odysseus -She hugs and kisses him, they both cry for a while -Penelope asks him to tell her about his journey -Eurycleia makes up their bed -In bed, he told her the whole story of his journey and she didn't sleep until he was finished -The next morning, Odysseus decides he must go see his father, on account of all the suffering he has caused him -He instructs Penelope to go up to her room with her ladies and not to talk to anybody

Major Themes (and where they are):  (Bella)
pg 301-303 Disguise: Penelope thinks it might be someone impersonating her husband pg 303 The Growth and Development of Telemachus: When he reprimands his mother pg 303-304 Homeric Hero: Odysseus is being all clever and witty when Penelope says she will move the bed, and Penelope when she devises the test to see if he really is Odysseus pg 303 and pg 304 Loyalty: When Telemachus stands by his father and says "yeah mom, this is dad, 'ya know, the one that's been missing for like, ever!", and when he praises Odysseus, pg 301-303 Justice: How the suitors were killed pg 306-310 Homeric Similes: Helen of Troy, the comparison of Penelope to the sea worn sailors, and Odysseus' story




on page 304 they say the don't want the news of the suitors death to spread through the town before they go visit the farm and orchards so they make a big fire and start dancing in the great hall.
pg 305 there talking about his great bed in his bedroom that he built himself and how hard it would be for someone to move it.

pg 306 Penelope says for Odysseus not to be harsh with her, and she compares her situation with Helen of Argos and how she never would have slept with Paris if the gods hand't willed her too, and then how she got sent back to Argos just as he got back t Ithicaa finally.

bottom of page 306 Rosy- fingered dawn kept the night lingering on the western horizn and in the east at golden-throned dawn waiting so they would hurry it up and stop crying all over eachother and go to bed.

pg 307 Odysseus tells his wife that he has one more adventure ahead of him that Teiresias' soul wanted him to go to the house of Hades now that hes finally home.

middle of pg 307 he told penelope that Teiresias to carry an oar untill he found people who know nothing of the sea and there ships have crimson sails and taht would be when he was supposed to offer a sacrafice to Posiedon.

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Study Guide Questions:
How does Penelope respond when Eurycleia tells her Odysseus is back? (Shelby) She didn't believe her at all and was in shock. What does Odysseus suggest doing to prevent the town from hearing about the suitors’ deaths right away? (Shelby) They're going to set up and clean up as if there was a wedding going on, like if the one of the suitors won over Penelope. How does Penelope test Odysseus? (Shelby) She asks a maide to move his bed,but only the real odysseus would know it can't be moved because its customized by him, made from the olive tree. What is so special about his bed? (Shelby) It was made from the trunk of an olive tree in the middle of the room. What must Odysseus do the following morning? (Shelby) Go see his Father because he feels he has put him through so much.