Book XIV · Episode 5 of 5
Winning a Cloak
Storm rages, Odysseus wins a cloak
Scenes
- A Stormy Night — Odysseus tests host with ambush tale
- Rain and west wind lash the lodge
- He feigns drunkenness, hoping for a cloak
- Ice forms on the soldiers’ shields
- Other men sleep snug in their cloaks
- He nudges Odysseus awake near dawn
- The Trick for a Cloak — Odysseus tricks Thoas out of his cloak
- The freezing soldier begs Odysseus for help
- A false dream sends Thoas for reinforcements
- He claims the cloak, sleeps warm
- The beggar sighs for his lost youth
- He wishes a herdsman still pitied him
- A Bed by the Fire — Eumaeus beds guest, guards the swine
- A proper cloak must wait for Telemachus
- He makes a bed of goat skins
- A thick storm-cloak covers the guest
- Eumaeus arms himself with sword and javelin
- Odysseus is glad his household stays faithful