Shrnutí Homer: Chapter 21

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1. Penelope doubts the report of Ulysses’ return, while he orders music and dancing to conceal the slaughter from outsiders.
2. Her request to move their marriage bed draws his revealing protest, and she embraces him as her husband.
3. Minerva extends their night together; among the dead, Agamemnon praises Penelope’s loyalty and contrasts it with Clytemnestra’s betrayal.
4. Ulysses proves his identity to Laertes through his scar and childhood memories of trees his father gives him.
5. Laertes kills the rebellion’s leader, and the surviving rebels submit to Ulysses after a short fight.
6. The narrator describes Ulysses’ unfulfilled religious duty and surveys other accounts of his death and further seafaring.

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