Odyssey+16

==== **The chapter begins when Eumaeus and Odysseus are eating breakfast and Telemachus comes home from Pylos. Odysseus is still disguised when Eumaeus and Telemachus talk about him not being able to come home. Then Telemachus tells Eumaeus to go tell Penelope that her son is home. After Eumaeus leaves Athene undisguises Odysseus and he shows Telemachus that he is back and safe. But at first Telemachis does not believe that he is Odysseus, then he finally believes him. The two discuss how to destroy the Suitors and make a plan for this. At the Palace Eumaeus breaks his promise not to tell anyone of Telemachus 's return by telling the women-servants not just the queen Penelope like he was supposed to. Athene redisguises Odysseus just as Eumaeus returns for dinner.** ====

Major Themes:

 * 1) Divine Intervention
 * 2) Loyalty
 * 3) Homeric Hero
 * 4) Disguise
 * 5) Hospitality p. 212
 * 6) Disloyalty p.218
 * 7) Women's Role p. 220
 * 8) Hubris

Locations Traveled:
Oddyseus's palace Eumaeus' Hut

Country in Ithaca Ithaca

Study Guide Questions: (Helen)
He visits Eurmaeus to visit him and to find out whether his mother has married again.
 * Why does Telemachus go to visit Eumaeus?**

He is unsure of whether he will be able to stave off physical attacks if him and the guest get into an argument also his mother is conflicted between staying in her home to honor Odysseus or to marry one of the suitors.
 * Why is Telemachus mortified at receiving the stranger in his home?**

He offers the stranger instead to send him clothes and food to Eumaeus's hut.
 * What does he offer the stranger instead?**

He tells him to give a message to Penelope that Telemachus is home from Pylos but to make sure that no one else hears it.
 * What does Telemachus ask Eumaeus to do?**

Athene appears to Odysseus.
 * To whom does Athene appear?**

she tells him to reveal himself to Telemachus so that they can plot revenge upon the suitors.
 * What does she tell Odysseus to do? **

There are 108 suitors.
 * How many suitors are there? **

Telemachus will go back to the palace and Odysseus will disguise himself as a beggar.Telemachus will bring the weapons and shields out of the war room using a plausible excuse. They will leave a few weapons ready for themselves, when the suitors are distracted they will kill them.
 * How do they plan to defeat the suitors?**

They discuss the arrival of Telemachus and that they will send word to their friends bidding them to come hither. They are also plotting the death of Telemachus.
 * One of the suitors calls an assembly – what do they discuss here?**


 * Why does Athene turn Odysseus back into an old man?**
 * She turns him back into an old man so no one will figure out that he is Odysseus.**