Place in Homer’s Odyssey
Samos
Wooded isle across the strait
The wooded island across the strait from Ithaca — Same, as the catalogue of the wooers also calls it — sending twenty-four of the suitors to Penelope's hall. In the channel between Samos and rocky Ithaca the suitors moor at Asteris to ambush Telemachus' returning ship, and miss him.
Bonds
- Samos home of The Suitors — twenty-four more of them
Appears in
- Book I Visit of Athena to Telemachus
- Book IV Conference of Telemachus and Menelaus
- Book IX The Ciconians, Lotus-Eaters, and Cyclops
- Book XV Return of Telemachus
- Book XVI Odysseus Discovering Himself to Telemachus
- Book XIX Odysseus Recognized by Eurycleia
- Book XX The Last Banquet of the Suitors
Scenes
- Athena counsels a voyage — Book I. Athena urges Telemachus toward Pylos, Sparta
- Antinoüs Plots an Ambush — Book IV. Antinoüs demands ship to ambush Telemachus
- Penelope Wakes; Ambush Set — Book IV. Penelope wakes as ship waits at Asteris
- Odysseus begins his tale — Book IX. Odysseus names himself, begins tale
- Athena’s Warning — Book XV. Athena warns Telemachus of ambush ahead
- News of Laertes — Book XV. Laertes grieves, Anticleia dead
- The Stranger’s Welcome — Book XVI. Telemachus clothes stranger, sends Eumaeus
- Counting the Suitors — Book XVI. Telemachus counts the suitors, hears voyage
- The Endless Web — Book XIX. Penelope recounts her shroud-trick
- Ctesippus’s insult — Book XX. Ctesippus flings foot, Odysseus dodges it