Homer, Chapter 20: Zusammenfassung

Was geschieht

1. During Apollo’s festival, the suitors mock Theoclymenus when he describes visions of their approaching deaths.
2. The queen offers marriage to whoever can string Ulysses’ bow and shoot through twelve axe heads.
3. Telemachus stops trying at his father’s signal, the suitors fail, and Ulysses completes the test while seated.
4. Ulysses kills Antinous, announces his identity, and refuses Eurymachus’s offer of compensation.
5. With Telemachus, two loyal servants, and Minerva’s help, Ulysses kills the suitors despite their access to some weapons.
6. Ulysses orders brutal punishments for disloyal servants and stops Eurycleia from celebrating over the bodies.

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Ulysses restrains Eurycleia’s triumph. The warning frames the deaths as punishment for wrongdoing, not a reason for joyful boasting.

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