Chapter II: Part III: The Triumph of Odysseus

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XXIX. Athena Advises Telemachos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

XXX. Telemachos Astonishes the Wooers . . . . . . . . . . . 128

XXXI. Penelope's Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

XXXII. The Journey of Telemachos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

XXXIII. Telemachos in Pylos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

XXXIV. Telemachos in Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

XXXV. Menelaos Relates His Adventures . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

XXXVI. The Conspiracy of the Suitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

XXXVII. Telemachos Returns to Ithaca . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

XXXVIII. Telemachos and the Swineherd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

XXXIX. Telemachos Recognizes Odysseus . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

XL. Telemachos Returns to the Palace . . . . . . . . . . . 165

XLI. Odysseus is Recognized by His Dog . . . . . . . . . . . 169

XLII. Odysseus Comes, a Beggar, to His Own House . . . . . . 172

XLIII. Conversation of Odysseus and Penelope . . . . . . . . . 176

XLIV. Eurycleia Recognizes Odysseus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

XLV. Penelope's Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

XLVI. Athena Encourages Odysseus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

XLVII. The Last Banquet of the Suitors . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

XLVIII. Odysseus Bends the Bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

XLIX. Death of the Suitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

L. Eurycleia Announces the Return of Odysseus to Penelope 203

LI. Odysseus Visits His Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Vocabulary and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ODYSSEUS AS A YOUTH AT HOME WITH HIS MOTHER . . . . . . Frontispiece

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THE SILVER-FOOTED THETIS RISING FROM THE WAVES . . . . . . . . . 10

ODYSSEUS AND MENELAOS PERSUADING AGAMEMNON TO SACRIFICE
IPHIGENEIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

ALPHEUS AND ARETHUSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

THE SWINEHERD TELLING HIS STORY TO ODYSSEUS . . . . . . . . . . 119

ODYSSEUS FEIGNS MADNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146