Book 17 - Odysseus goes to town

• ’Go upstairs to your

  Room with your ladies’ (Telemachus)
• Lacked the strength 


  to come nearer to his master [Argus]
• The black hand of death descended on 


  him the moment he caught sight of Odysseus [Argus]
• [Odysseus] collecting scraps from

  the suitors … to distinguish the good from the bad
• ‘Haven’t we vagabonds

  enough already’ (Antinous)
• ‘Antinous you may be nobly 


  born but there’s nothing noble in your speech’ (Odysseus)
• Picking up a stool he 


  threw it and struck Odysseus [Antinous]
• Though this did not mean


  In the end she was to save a single one from destruction