Book XXIII · Episode 1 of 4
Eurycleia’s Urgent News
Eurycleia wakes Penelope, scar convinces
Scenes
- Eurycleia Wakes Penelope — Eurycleia announces deaths, Penelope scoffs
- Eurycleia hurries to Penelope’s bower
- Suitors despoiled house, insulted Telemachus
- Penelope wakes from soundest sleep in years
- Penelope accuses nurse of losing her wits
- Telemachus kept his father’s secret
- How Were They Slain? — Penelope doubts, Eurycleia describes scene
- Penelope embraces Eurycleia in tears
- She asks how he slew so many
- She sat locked away with terrified maids
- Odysseus stood amid the dead, a lion
- He smokes the hall clean with fire
- Scar as Proof — Eurycleia recalls scar, Penelope agrees
- Penelope suspects a god struck suitors down
- She fears Odysseus perished far from Ithaca
- She once saw his boar’s-tusk scar
- Eurycleia offers her own life as pledge
- Penelope agrees to view the slain herself