Book XIX · Episode 4 of 6
Tokens of Trust
Odysseus recalls the king’s own garb
Scenes
- Testing With Tokens — Penelope quizzes him on the cloak, convinced
- Clasp shows a hound gripping a fawn
- Herald Eurybates: hunchbacked, curly-haired
- Penelope recognizes garments she once folded
- Odysseus swears an oath by Zeus and hearth
- Predicts his return within the year
- Ordering the Bath — Penelope orders a bath, he wants an elder
- She threatens punishment for any mistreatment
- A couch is readied with blankets, tapestries
- Odysseus declines the soft coverings offered
- He seeks someone who has suffered like him
- Eurycleia, who reared Odysseus, is chosen