Book XVI · Episode 3 of 4
Suitors Plot Murder
Ship returns, suitors plot murder
Scenes
- Ship’s Return Reported — Herald tells Penelope her son is safe
- Ship reaches Ithaca from Pylos
- Crew stores gifts at Clytius’ house
- Herald hurries to spare Penelope fear
- He announces the news among her maids
- Eumaeus arrives moments later beside her
- Suitors’ Foiled Ambush — Suitors pause, Amphinomus spots the ship
- Suitors doubted Telemachus would succeed
- Eurymachus proposes summoning the ambush crew
- Amphinomus laughs with relief at the sight
- No need now to send word
- Maybe a god guided the crew home
- Antinoüs Urges Murder — Antinoüs demands death, Amphinomus dissents
- Suitors meet in private after beaching
- A god shielded him from their ambush
- Antinoüs fears exposure before an assembly
- He’d split Odysseus’ wealth among the suitors
- Amphinomus urges consulting the gods first