1. Father and Son (7) 1. Phaeacians gave Odysseus gifts and took him home. 2. Poseidon turns their ship into a lump of stone for helping Odysseus. 3. Meanwhile back at Odysseus’s palace, 112 suitors have moved in and demanded that Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, choose one of them to be her new husband. 4. Odysseus went to the hut of his swineherds man, Eumaeus. 5. Odysseus meets his son Telemachus, but Telemachus does not believe this is his father. Finally, he and Odysseus cry in each others arms, happy for the reunion. 6. Athena appears and changes Odysseus into a beggar to help him get into his home. 7. Plans are made. Odysseus tells Telemachus to count suitors, put away the suitors weapons and set aside 2 broadswords, 2 spears, and 2 shields, and don’t tell Penelope he is home. The Beggar at the Manor (9) 1. When Odysseus nears his home he sees his old dog Argos. Argos had been mistreated and left to die. He recognized his master but no one else did. Lying on the dung pile he lifts his head, wags his tail, and dies. Odysseus cries.

2. 2. Antinous is insulting to Odysseus and refuses to offer Odysseus (the beggar) any food. 3. Antinous threw a stool and hit Odysseus on the shoulder. 4. The beggar (Odysseus) said Antinous didn’t want to share 5. the food and the food was not even his. He then said, “… then may Antinous meet his death before his wedding day!” 6. Another suitor warned that the beggar could be a god walking in foreign guise. 7. Penelope hears when the beggar is hit and ask that the beggar be brought to her. She apologized for the way he had been treated in her home and then asked if in his travel if he had seen Odysseus. He said he had and proved it by describing a belt buckle that Odysseus wore. 8. Penelope had told the suitors that she could not marry until she had woven a shroud for Lord Laertes. For 3 years she fooled the suitors by weaving during the day and taking it out by night. In the 4 th year one of her servants told the suitors and they caught her, destroyed the shroud, and demanded that she choose one of them for her husband. 9. Penelope feared for her son’s life and knew she had to keep the promise she had made to her husband before he left. When her son became a man, hair on his chin, she would marry another if Odysseus had not returned.

3. “The Test of the Bow” (6) 1. Penelope tells the suitors that whoever strings Odysseus’s bow and shoots an arrow cleanly through 12 iron axe-helve sockets, she will marry him. 2. Telemachus orders all women to lock themselves in and locks the doors to the great hall. 3. The suitors can not string Odysseus’s bow. 4. The beggar ask to try and the suitors make fun of him. 5. The beggar (Odysseus) strings the bow, and cleanly sends an arrow through all twelve. 6. Odysseus then tells his son Telemachus, “The hour has come to cook their lordships’ mutton”. Part 4 “Death In the Great Hall” (4) 1. Odysseus sent an arrow flying toward Antinous, struck him in the throat, and sent him backwards spilling wine and blood.

4. 2. Eurymachus tried to make a deal with Odysseus by offering to replace and pay additional for all they had consumed. Odysseus said not for all of the fathers’ treasures. 3. Eurymachus rallied the men to rush Odysseus and Telemachus. 4. With the help of two faithful men, all of the suitors were killed and at one point Telemachus even saved his father. “The Trunk of the Olive Tree” (8) 1. The nurse hurried upstairs to tell Penelope that Odysseus was home. 2. Penelope is amazed but does not believe it. 3. The old nurse tried to confirm it by telling her about the scar on his leg left by a boar. 4. Telemachus accused his mother of having a hard heart. 5. Penelope instructed Eurycleia to place Odysseus bed outside of the chambers. 6. Odysseus became angry and wanted to know who had destroyed his bed. The bedroom had been built around the tree that was used as a bed and the roots had been left in the ground. 7. From this statement, Penelope knew her husband, Odysseus was home. 8. Athena appears to the rallying families of the suitors and called for peace.