Book IV · Episode 5 of 7

The Suitors Plot an Ambush

Suitors learn, Antinoüs plots ambush

Scenes

1. Suitors Learn of the Voyage — Noemon’s question reveals Telemachus sailed
   • Suitors pass days with quoits and spears
   • He lent his ship to fetch mares
   • Antinoüs and Eurymachus are stunned
   • They assumed he was with his flocks
2. Antinoüs Presses for Details — Antinoüs learns Mentor led the crew
   • Noemon confirms he lent the ship freely
   • Ithaca’s finest young men crewed for him
   • He’d seen the real Mentor in town
   • Suitors fall silent, take their seats
   • Antinoüs’s eyes burn with rage
3. Antinoüs Plots an Ambush — Antinoüs demands ship to ambush Telemachus
   • Antinoüs rails at his defiance
   • He wants twenty men in the strait
   • Suitors applaud and move to act
   • Medon overhears, hurries to warn Penelope