Book VII · Episode 3 of 5
A Hero’s Welcome
Alcinoüs honors Odysseus, vows passage
Scenes
- Welcomed to the Hearth — Echeneus urges Alcinoüs to seat stranger
- Sits among the ashes at the hearth
- Echeneus, eldest and most eloquent, speaks
- Calls leaving him in cinders unseemly
- Laodamas gives up his own seat
- Protonous pours wine for the libation
- Alcinoüs’ Promise — Alcinoüs vows council, wonders if a god
- Ends the feast, promising sacrifice tomorrow
- Gods have shown themselves to Phaeacians
- Odysseus denies being a god in disguise
- Says hunger commands even the sorrowful
- Wishes to die content seeing his halls