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A Symbol in this part was the moving of the bed. Odysseus knew nobody could move the bed except a god and then Penelope knew that her husband was finally back. (Homer pg 893=894 lines 127=140) " Make up his bed for him, Eurycleia.° Place it outside the bedchamber my lord built with his own hands. Pile the big bed with fleeces, rugs, and sheets of purest linen.  With this she tried him to the breaking point, and he turned on her in a flash raging: “Woman, by heaven you’ve stung me now! Who dared to move my bed?  No builder had the skill for that—unless a god came down to turn the trick. No mortal in his best days could budge it with a crowbar. There is our pact and pledge, our secret sign, built into that bed—my handiwork and no one else’s!"

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(Homer pg 894 lines 160-176) " “Do not rage at me, Odysseus! No one ever matched your caution! Think what difficulty the gods gave: they denied us life together in our prime and flowering years, 165 kept us from crossing into age together. Forgive me, don’t be angry. I could not welcome you with love on sight! I armed myself long ago against the frauds of men, impostors who might come—and all those many 170 whose underhanded ways bring evil on! . . . But here and now, what sign could be so clear as this of our own bed? No other man has ever laid eyes on it— only my own slave, Actoris,° that my father 175 sent with me as a gift—she kept our door. You make my stiff heart know that I am yours."

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Athena came back to Odysseus  and transformed him to a tall, and massive man. (Homer 893  lines 98=105) " She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden "

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Penelope does not want to  get her hopes up for no reason if odyssues is back so she ios waititng for a sign that it really is him. (Homer 891 lines 44=50) " I am stunned, child. 45 I cannot speak to him. I cannot question him. I cannot keep my eyes upon his face. If really he is Odysseus, truly home, beyond all doubt we two shall know each other better than you or anyone. There are 50 secret signs we know, we two."

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Odysseus had to face a big challenge when he had to fight all the suitors who wanted  to avenge their fallen friend who Odysseus ruthlessly killed but with the help of his son the wisdom of the 2 overcame the angry suitors. ( Homer 890 Italics) "Odysseus and Telemachus, along with their two allies, cut down all the suitors. Athena also makes an appearance, rallying their spirits and ensuring that none of her favorites is injured. Finally the great hall is quiet. "

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( Homer 890 Italics) " Odysseus and Telemachus, along with their two allies, cut down all the suitors. Athena also makes an appearance, rallying their spirits and ensuring that none of her favorites is injured. Finally the great hall is quiet."

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There is no denying Odysseus is a great warrior. He strategizes almost every move and he calculates every very carefully so even when in this situation is is all the suitors versus him and his son he will come out on top because of there Wisdom and Strategizing. ( Homer pg 889 lines 95=105)  "Amphinomus° now came running at Odysseus, broadsword naked in his hand. He thought to make the great soldier give way at the door. But with a spear throw from behind Telemachus hit him between the shoulders, and the lancehead drove clear through his chest. He left his feet and fell forward, thudding, forehead against the ground. Telemachus swerved around him, leaving the long dark spear planted in Amphinomus. If he paused to yank it out someone might jump him from behind or cut him down with a sword "

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Homer uses very dicriptive language throughout this part to describe actions that have happend such as when Odusseus shot Antinues ( Homer pg 886 lines 15=20)  "Odysseus’ arrow hit him under the chin and punched up to the feathers° through his throat. Backward and down he went, letting the winecup fall from his shocked hand. Like pipes his nostrils jetted crimson runnels,° a river of mortal red, 20 and one last kick upset his table "

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Odysseus when he was stringing the bow to kill Antinious he compared himself to Apollo who is the god of Archery (Homer pg 886 lines 5=7)   “So much for that. Your clean-cut game is over. Now watch me hit a target that no man has hit before, if I can make this shot. Help me, Apollo.” .

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While Antinous goes to string the bow Odysseus  goes and reveals himself to other faithful men but also asks if he could have a try at the bow. He does this to stall time to have more time to investigate if Penelope still is loyal to the great Odysseus. ( Homer pg. 881 italics) " One by one the suitors try to string the bow, and all fail. Only Antinous delays his attempt. In the meantime, Odysseus steps outside with the swineherd Eumaeus and Philoetius, another faithful herdsman, and reveals his identity to them. Odysseus returns to the hall and asks to try his hand at stringing the bow. Antinous sneers at this idea, but Penelope and Telemachus both insist he proceed. Telemachus orders the women to leave, Philoetius locks the gates of the hall, and Eumaeus presents to Odysseus the great bow he has not held for twenty years."

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(Homer pg 883 lines 54=67)  " Odysseus said: “Telemachus, the stranger you welcomed in your hall has not disgraced you. I did not miss, neither did I take all day stringing the bow. My hand and eye are sound,  not so contemptible as the young men say. The hour has come to cook their lordships’ mutton°— supper by daylight. Other amusements later, with song and harping that adorn a feast.” He dropped his eyes and nodded, and the prince Telemachus, true son of King Odysseus, belted his sword on, clapped hand to his spear, and with a clink and glitter of keen bronze stood by his chair, in the forefront near his father. "

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The task of stringing and  shooting Odysseus's bow is a symbol of precision, strength and focus. Odysseus excels in all these category's and ends up stringing and shooting the bow. (Homer pg 882 lines  49-52)  "Now flashed  arrow from twanging bow clean as a whistle through every socket ring, and grazed° not one, to thud with heavy brazen head° beyond."

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During the stringing  and shooting of the bow there is a loud crack in the sky which is from Zeus to show that she is on Odysseus's side. (Homer pg 882 lines 38-43) "In the hushed hall it smote° the suitors and all their faces changed. Then Zeus thundered  overhead, one loud crack for a sign. And Odysseus laughed within him that the son of crooked-minded Cronus had flung that omen° down"

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When Odysseus sees his wife, Penelope after 20 years away from her he does not immediately reveal himself. He does not do this to see if she still remains loyally and too see if he can still trust her after 20 years of being away.

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A symbol that is very imprtant in this section and in the Odyssey in general is Beggars. Beggars are usually Gods or Goddesses in disguise like Odysseus himself. As Antinious disrespects Odysseus he is building himself a bad reputyation for the rest of the book. (Homer pg 876=877 lines 37=65) " Here it was otherwise. Antinous hit me for being driven on by hunger— how many bitter seas men cross for hunger! 40 If beggars interest the gods, if there are Furies  pent in the dark to avenge a poor man’s wrong, then may Antinous meet his death before his wedding day!".  " “A poor show, that—hitting this famished tramp— bad business, if he happened to be a god. You know they go in foreign guise, the gods do, looking like strangers, turning up 55 in towns and settlements to keep an eye on manners, good or bad.” .

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Antinous is a arrogant and rude man who does not control his actions and emotions. He is selfish and would not want to give any food to "The beggar" Who was really odysseus himself.

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Athena is confident, practical, clever, a master of disguises, and a great warrior like Odysseus. She is a very staticig Warrior and thinks about how to handle certain situations. Her and Odysseus are alike.

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God intervention happens when Athena help Odysseus become oriented of what has happened to Ithaca while he was away for the past 2 decades. She also transformes him into his former younger self because he lost that while he was away for to long

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(Homer pg 872 Italics) "Odysseus is disoriented after twenty years away from home, but the goddess Athena meets him and tells him what happened: during his long absence, a number of young men from Ithaca and neighboring islands have moved into Odysseus’s great house. Thinking Odysseus is dead, the suitors, as they are called, eat his food, drink his wine, and insist that Odysseus’s wife Penelope choose one of them as her husband."  (Homer pg 872 Italics) "Athena disguises Odysseus as an old beggar and promises to help him. She tells him to seek shelter with a swineherd named Eumaeus".