Book 21 Quotes

• "There's not a man in this whole company like Odysseus"

  Antinous
• "I'll know that at last I'm capable of winning the fine prizes my father won"

  Telemachus
• "Unlike the rest, he (Leodes) abhorred the Suitors' recklessness, and their conduct filled him with indignation"

  Homer
• "It is far better to die than to live on without ever winning the prize that lures us all here every day and keeps us always hoping"

  Leodes
• "Our failure with his bow proves us such weaklings compared with the godlike Odysseus"


  Eurymachus
• "It is neither good manners nor common decency to show such meanness to people who come to this house as Telemachus's guests"

  Penelope
• "No men who desecrate and destroy a great man's household can anyhow have a high reputation among the people"

  Penelope
• "I am master in this house"

  Telemachus