Book 13 - Odysseus lands in Ithaca

• Held in the spell


  Of his words
• Arete sent with him [Odysseus]

  A party of serving-women
• Rowed by those

  able hands
• ’I said that Odysseus would suffer much before


  he reached his home, though I never put a final ban on his return’ (Poseidon)
• ‘I propose to wreck that fine ship of the


  Phaeacians on the misty seas as she comes back from her mission’ (Poseidon)
• He failed to recognise it, because the 


  goddess, Pallas Athene, Daughter of Zeus, had thrown a mist over the place
• ‘I had better count my belongings and make sure that


  the crew have not robbed me and gone off with anything in their hollow ship’ (Odysseus)
• Athene now appeared,

  disguised as a young shepherd
• He revelled in the knowledge

  that he was on his native soil
• ‘You were always an obstinate,


  cunning and irrepressible intriguer’ (Athene)
• ‘It was I who made all the Phaeacians


  take to you so kindly’ (Athene)
• ‘…Does nothing but sit at home with her


  eyes never free from tears as the slow nights and days pass sorrowfully by’ (Athene)
• The two of them sat down by the trunk of the sacred


  olive-tree to scheme the downfall of the presumptuous Suitors