Place in Homer’s Odyssey
Dulichium
Grain-rich island of the wooers
A grain-rich, grassy island counted beside Ithaca, Same and Zacynthus whenever the suitors are numbered: two-and-fifty of them, the largest single company, sail from Dulichium. In the beggar's tales it is the kingdom he was to be shipped to next.
Bonds
- Dulichium home of The Suitors — fifty-two of the wooers
Appears in
- Book I Visit of Athena to Telemachus
- Book IX The Ciconians, Lotus-Eaters, and Cyclops
- Book XIV Meeting of Odysseus and Eumaeus
- Book XVI Odysseus Discovering Himself to Telemachus
- Book XVIII Combat of Odysseus and Irus
- Book XIX Odysseus Recognized by Eurycleia
Scenes
- Athena counsels a voyage — Book I. Athena urges Telemachus toward Pylos, Sparta
- Odysseus begins his tale — Book IX. Odysseus names himself, begins tale
- The Cretan’s Long Tale — Book XIV. Odysseus invents war, plunder, betrayal
- Eumaeus Stays Doubtful — Book XIV. Eumaeus rejects oath, spares him from rock
- The Stranger’s Welcome — Book XVI. Telemachus clothes stranger, sends Eumaeus
- Counting the Suitors — Book XVI. Telemachus counts the suitors, hears voyage
- Antinoüs Urges Murder — Book XVI. Antinoüs demands death, Amphinomus dissents
- Telemachus Ends the Uproar — Book XVIII. Telemachus rebukes suitors, all retire
- The Endless Web — Book XIX. Penelope recounts her shroud-trick
- Testing With Tokens — Book XIX. Penelope quizzes him on the cloak, convinced