Book Xix Odyssey Summary

Telemachus goes to bed while odysseus meets penelope and her maids.

Book xix odyssey summary. Melantho the disrespectful servant girl who sleeps with eurymachus confronts the beggar odysseus once more. He insults odysseus the beggar when they meet on the grounds and antinous decides to pit them against each other so that the suitors can enjoy the fight. Penelope also reprimands melantho.

Athena lights the room for them so that they can see as they work. Book 19 penelope and her guest. Summary of books xix xxiv book xix is called the meeting with penelope and the recognition by eurycleia odysseus who still is in the disguise of the beggar orders telemachus to get rid of the suitors weapons just like they planned.

Telemachus and ulysses remove the armour ulysses interviews penelope euryclea washes his feet and recognises the scar on his leg penelope tells her dream to ulysses. The suitors have gone home for the night. Odysseus instructs telemachus to gather the weapons and hide them where they will not be readily available to the suitors the next day.

Telemachus tells eurycleia that they are storing the arms to keep them from being damaged. Most people figure he s dead. Ulysses was left in the cloister pondering on the means whereby with minerva s help he might be able to kill the suitors.

That night as the suitors sleep odysseus and telemachus lock up most of the weapons as part of their plan. Book eighteen begins with a man named irus mocking odysseus as he leaves the palace which leads to a brawl. Years after the end of the trojan war the greek hero odysseus still hasn t come home to ithaka.

Literature network homer the odyssey summary book xix. A rude beggar named arnaeus irus for short wanders into the palace. Telemachus goes to sleep and soon after penelope comes to question the strange visitor and she and odysseus the beggar sit down to have a conversation.