Book XX · Episode 4 of 5
Feast turns to insult
Telemachus seats Odysseus, Ctesippus attacks
Scenes
- Telemachus seats Odysseus — Telemachus seats Odysseus, warns suitors
- Promises to shield him from insults
- Declares the house belongs to his father
- Warns suitors to check tongues and hands
- Suitors bite their lips, astonished
- Antinoüs mutters of silencing his tongue
- Hecatomb and banquet — Heralds lead hecatomb, suitors feast
- Telemachus pays Antinoüs no heed
- Procession heads to Phoebus’s shady grove
- Long-haired crowds gather for the sacrifice
- Meat is roasted, drawn, and carved
- Odysseus gets a portion equal to all
- Ctesippus’s insult — Ctesippus flings foot, Odysseus dodges it
- Athena stirs the suitors’ taunts
- Ctesippus trusts his father’s riches
- Mocks the stranger’s equal share
- Offers a mocking gift of hospitality
- Foot strikes the wall harmlessly
- Telemachus rebukes Ctesippus — Telemachus warns he’d have speared Ctesippus
- Says his father would plan a funeral
- No longer a child unable to judge
- Endures suitors eating his flocks, wine
- Won’t tolerate women dragged about
- Would rather die than watch such shame