She calls him a big oaf and says that he ogles women. What scheme does Penelope devise to avoid marrying the suitors. She says that she will marry when she finishes her burial shroud, but every night she saps all progress.
He asks for a woman who has suffered as much as me. Why do the suitors look down on Odysseus? How will Penelope decided who she will marry? By testing each man to see if they could string a bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axe handles. Antinous is the first of the suitors to be killed. Drinking in the Great Hall, he is slain by an arrow to the throat shot by Odysseus.
Penelope has not seen her husband for many years. She tests Odysseus by ordering her servant Eurycleia to move their marriage bed. A swallow. What finally convinces Penelope that Odysseus is her husband? He is able to describe in detail how he made the bed.
What is the symbolic meaning of the connection between the olive tree and the marriage bed? She offered to make me immortal, but I preferred to get old with my Penelope than to live with the goddess forever. And then one day she let me leave, for the gods had so ordered her, and she helped me build a makeshift raft and gave me provisions for my journey.
With her help I woke up on the shores of the land of the Phaeacians. They were very entertained by all my tales of giants, witches and monsters. So they offered to take me home and gave me great riches besides. But the goddess Athena advised me of the situation here and warned me to keep my return a secret. I agreed, much though it pained me, a king begging in my own palace, seeing how the suitors treated you, longing to reveal myself to you when I saw you had begun to despair.
Why did you not return from Troy directly after that fateful day when the city was sacked by the men who had hidden in the famous horse? Penelope's suitors. Also, what challenge does Penelope create for the suitors? When Telemachus is an adult, Odysseus returns disguised as a beggar. He beats Penelope's challenge for the suitors , which was that whoever can string Odysseus's bow and shoot it through 12 axe handles can have her hand i marrige.
Odysseus tests the suitors by begging for food from each one. Penelope tells Eumaeus to bring the beggar to her; she wants to know if he has any news about Odysseus. To assure herself of Odysseus ' identity, Penelope tests him. As he listens, she asks Eurycleia to move the bedstead out of the couple's chamber and spread it with blankets.
The king himself had carved the bed as a young man, shaping it out of a living olive tree that grew in the courtyard of the palace. Because of her efforts to put off remarriage, Penelope is often seen as a symbol of connubial fidelity. Having come to Ithaca, he drove away some of the cattle, and when Odysseus defended them, Telegonus 3 wounded him with the spear he had in his hands, which was barbed with the spine of a stingray, and Odysseus died of the wound.
But others say that Odysseus died of Old Age, as Tiresias predicted. Another Suitor , Antinous, wants to overthrow Telemachus and take over the palace. Basically, the suitors run rampant through Odysseus' mansion, eating all of the food, slaughtering the livestock, and harassing Penelope for her hand in marriage.
Penelope waited two decades for her husband Odysseus to return to Ithaca from the Trojan War, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. In this long and painful wait her sole relief was to weep and sigh all day long, and to lie in what she called her "bed of sorrows" which she watered with tears until she fell asleep.
Once Odysseus returns home whom Athena initially disguises as a beggar so he can plot his revenge in secret , his son Telemachus tells him that there are suitors : 52 from Dulichium, 24 from Same, 20 Achaeans from Zacynthus, and 12 from Ithaca. Odysseus' wife Penelope has suitors because of Odysseus' long absence.
They assume that he is dead, and they hope to marry Penelope to inherit all that she has. The suitors believe Odysseus to be dead. They wish to inherit his vast fortune and kingdom. In Book IXX, the nurse accidentally discovers Odysseus ' identity and turns to tell Penelope who he is , but is unsuccessful "because Athena had bemused the queen, so that she took no notice, paid no heed.
What is the strategy behind Odysseus ' first shot? Apollo is the god of archery so odysseus would pray to someone who is the best of the art.
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