Book 23 Odysseus and Penelope

• What was Penelope's reaction to Eurycleia telling her that Odysseus was back?


  She didn't believe her
• What does Penelope say about the Suitors' deaths?

  She wanted to see their corpses and "the man who killed them"- suggesting she still doesn't believe Odysseus is back
• How does Odysseus plan to conceal the Suitors' deaths

  By playing music so any passing strangers would assume a party was being held
• What had Odysseus made his bed out of?

  An olive tree, making it impossible to move
• What have some scholars theorised about the end of the Odyssey?

  That it wasn't really Homer's work