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Books 19-24 in the Odyssey] - Coggle Diagram
Books 19-24 in the Odyssey]
Ultimate example of Kleos
Laertes has turn at kleos with killing Antinous' dad
Odysseus reclaims his house (restoring a functional oikos)
To Homer, justice is finally served - POETIC JUSTICE
Book 19
Eurycleia recognises Odysseus
Eurycleia calls Odysseus "my dearest child"
Eurycleia swears "I'll keep as silent as a block of stone."
Penelope still shows xenia - showing how she has never changed
Book 20
Maids are shown to go and sleep willingly with the suitors at the beginning
Zeus shows support for Odysseus with a bird "carrying dove in its talons"
Philoetius and Eumeus call Odysseus "old friend"
Theoclymenus' vision foreshadows their fate
Antinuous throws a cowhoof at Odysseus
Suitors become miserable, and the blood is on the wall and on the food in an Omen Athene sends
The sun goes dark and there is mist
Book 21
begin to build up to the suitors death
Zeus sends a thunderbolt at the end of this book for his approval
Odysseus is described as "a minstrel at the lyre"
SYmbolic image of Odysseus and Telemachus, both in bronze armour
Telemachus almost strings the bow - signifies that he is now a young man
Book 22
Antinous is the first one to die
Suitors are finally killed, all 108 of them
Eurymachus is the 2nd one to die
"Gray surf" represents the suitors' fate
Moment of aristeia (defining moments of excellence in battle)
Book 23
"Blissfully they tread on solid land, saved from disaster"
Penelope reunites with Odysseus
Peleope tests Odysseus with the bed
Nostos is finally fulfilled with his wife, son and loyal maids
Bed was rooted into the house, which Odysseus made himself
Book 24
Anti climatic with Zeus sending a bolt to make everyone forget about the suitors death
begins in the underworld, when Agamemmnon and Achilles are talking about Odysseus victory
Would call back to the themes of kleos and nostos
Argued if Homer wrote this book
Fidelity and marriage
Marriage bed symbolism
Olive tree represents Athene
Odysseus and Athene plan the suitors death under an olive tree
Stable marriage - rooted in oikos