Book VII · Episode 4 of 5
Odysseus Tells His Tale
Arete questions, Odysseus tells his tale
Scenes
- Arete’s Question — Odysseus retells Calypso, shipwreck, Nausicaä
- Arete studies his mantle and tunic
- Cloth she and her maids once wove
- Spent seven years on Calypso’s Ogygia
- Zeus’s bolt destroyed his ship
- Nausicaä kindly gave food, wine, clothes
- A Son-in-Law Offered — Alcinoüs offers daughter, promises escort
- Nausicaä had told him to follow
- He held back, fearing to displease king
- Says his heart is slow to anger
- Offers palace and riches, not forced
- Oarsmen once rowed Rhadamanthus to Euboea