Odysseus then goes outside and reveals his identity to Eumaeus and Philoetius, who promise him their loyalty. Odysseus tells them their part in his plan to slaughter the suitors and goes back to the contest. He strings the bow and shoots his first arrow through the 12 axes and signals Telemachus to begin the slaughter.
When Odysseus left Ithaca for the Trojan war he was married to Penelope. After that Odysseus traveled to Calypso's island. Not only did he cheat with Calypso in addition to Circe, but he stayed on her island for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him. Odysseus's wife and Telemachus's mother.
In the beginning of the story, Penelope's most prominent qualities are passivity, loyalty, and patience along with beauty and skill at the loom — the age-old feminine virtues. Odysseus was a great hero among the Greeks, and so had Athena's favor and aid in many of his exploits.
She was a key goddess in the story of the Odyssey as a divine assistant to Odysseus on his journey home. From the very beginning of the Odyssey, Athena is helping Odysseus.
Who is phemius and medon and why are their lives spared? Asked by: Enrico Jacobs MD. How does Penelope prove Odysseus identity? Why can't the suitors string Odysseus's bow? What happened to Penelope's suitors? What was Penelope doing during the slaughter of the suitors? What cruel task do the disloyal maids have to complete before they are killed?
Who does Odysseus reveal himself to? How is Melanthius killed? Why is Phemius spared? Why is Odysseus success so remarkable? How does Penelope trick Odysseus in Book 23? The priest Leodes begs unsuccessfully for mercy. Odysseus has Eurycleia come out. She openly rejoices to see the suitors dead, but Odysseus checks her impropriety. She rounds up the disloyal servant women, who are first made to clear the corpses from the hall and wash the blood from the furniture; they are then sent outside and executed.
Odysseus tells Telemachus to cut them down with a sword, but Telemachus decides to hang them—a more disgraceful death. Last of all, the traitor Melanthius is tortured and killed. After the bloodbath, Odysseus has the house fumigated. The dramatic scene in which Odysseus effortlessly strings the bow is justly famous. Since the bow gives Odysseus a weapon in hand, it also allows for a seamless transition to the fighting of Book Homer tells us that Odysseus received the bow during a diplomatic trip to Messene, long before any of his hardships began, and that it has been seldom used since then.
Through his mastery of the bow, Odysseus comes full circle, once again the king and most powerful man in Ithaca. Athena plays a less prominent role in the battle than earlier books suggest she might. Disguised as Mentor, she offers encouragement at a crucial moment, but her departure to the sidelines puts the focus squarely on Odysseus and his allies.
Of course, Athena would presumably intervene if the battle were to go awry, but her reserve until the very end allows the victory to be portrayed as the work of Odysseus and Telemachus. When the suitors do fall, Homer makes their deaths seem fitting by reminding us of the foul deeds that merited this purge.
Antinous, foremost among the suitors for his impudence, falls first. The fighting of Book 22 is the only pitched battle in The Odyssey , and while it cannot help but recall The Iliad , which abounds in bloodshed, the description remains thoroughly Odyssean. For one thing, it maintains the comic and domestic flavor that many critics find characteristic of The Odyssey.
The battle, for instance, occurs not on a field but in a palace with the doors locked. Additionally, some of the deaths have a kind of Gothic humor to them, as suitors like Antinous and Eurymachus trip over their dinners. The incapacitation of Melanthius in the storeroom adds comic relief, as does his castration. After all, these are not famous heroes fighting one another but rather one famous hero warding off a bunch of freeloaders.
Eumaeus is one of Odysseus servants. He helps Odysseus by telling him that the suitors are armed because Melanthius gave them weapons.
Who fights alongside Odysseus in the slaughter of the suitors? Two of the servants, Telemachus, and Athena disguised as Mentor fight with Odysseus to kill the suitors. How does Athena help Odysseus in his battle against the suitors? Athena helps Odysseus by motivating him. Also, when the suitors are throwing their spears and shooting, she made it so that Odysseus and his men could not be hit by the suitors, but when they aim at the suitors, Athena made it so that they always hit them.
Why does Telemachus ask Odysseus to spare Phemius and Medon? Medon is also spared because Medon told Penelope that the suitors were plotting to kill Odysseus.
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