![]() Pallas Athene herself, carrying a golden lamp before them, shed a beautiful light. At once, Odysseus and his fine son began carrying away the helmets, the bossed shields, and the sharp spears. Silently then she locked the doors of the great hall. ‘The Stranger, here, will do it,’ wise Telemachus replied, ‘since I’ll not have a man idle who eats from my table, now matter how far he’s travelled.’ But who is to fetch and carry a light for you, since you won’t have the maids here who might have done so?’ ‘Yes child,’ Eurycleia, the loyal nurse, replied, ‘and I wish you’d always show such care for the house, and look after its treasures. Now I wish to store them where the draught from the fire won’t reach them.’ Telemachus responded to his brave father’s words, and called for Eurycleia, the nurse, saying: ‘Nurse, I want the women shut in their rooms, while I store my father’s weapons away, fine weapons that have lain around the hall, neglected and darkening with the smoke, ever since he left in my childhood. Zeus, son of Cronos, has filled my heart with an even greater fear, that you might start a quarrel amongst yourselves, and wound each other, and so bring shame on the feast and your cause. If the Suitors miss them and question you, deceive them with placatory words, and say: “I’ve moved them out of the smoke from the fire, since they no longer look as they did when Odysseus left them behind and sailed for Troy, but are all grimy where the draught from the hearth has reached them. At once he spoke to Telemachus winged words: ‘We must hide the weapons away, all of them, Telemachus. So, noble Odysseus remained in the hall, planning with Athene’s aid how to kill the Suitors. Bk XIX:554-604 Penelope proposes a challenge for the Suitorsīk XIX:1-52 Odysseus and Telemachus hide the weapons.Bk XIX:476-507 Odysseus tells Eurycleia to conceal his identity.Bk XIX:361-475 Eurycleia recognises Odysseus.Bk XIX:308-360 Penelope offers hospitality.Bk XIX:220-307 Odysseus prophesies his own return.Bk XIX:164-219 Odysseus tells a false tale.Bk XIX:100-163 Penelope and Odysseus converse.Bk XIX:53-99 Penelope prepares to question the Stranger.Bk XIX:1-52 Odysseus and Telemachus hide the weapons.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
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