Book 2 - The debate in Ithaca

• Strode from his bedroom 


  looking like a god
• Athene endowed him with such supernatural


  grace that all eyes were turned on him in admiration when he came up
• Eager to speak, he left his seat


  Without further ado and took his stand in the middle of the assembly
• ’The destruction of my house is an injustice 


  Which you, gentlemen, should resent not only on your behalf but as a scandal to our neighbours‘ [ Telemachus ]
• As he spoke his passion rose;


  and at the end he burst into tears and flung the staff on the ground
• A wave of

  pity swept through the gathering
• ‘It is your own mother,


  that incomparable schemer, who is the culprit’ [ Antinous ]
• ‘For three years she


  took us in by this trick’ [ Antinous ]
• What was the trick Penelope played?

  She unpicked the shroud she was sewing
• ‘We caught her unravelling her 


  beautiful work, and she was forced reluctantly to complete it’ [ Antinous ]
• ‘She beware of trying our young

  men’s patience much further and counting too much on the matchless gifts she owes to Athene’ [ Antinous ]
• ‘For I assure you that so long as she


  maintains this attitude that the gods have guided her to adopt, the suitors will continue to eat you out of house and home’ [ Antinous ]
• In answer to his words, Zeus the Thunderer


  urged two eagles into flight from the mountain top
• ‘And my pronouncement is particularly

  for the suitors. A great calamity is about to engulf them’ [ Halistheres ]
• ‘Plenty of birds go about their business


  in the sunny air, but it isn’t every one that is a bird of omen’ [ Eurymachus ]
• ‘This journey of yours


  will not prove futile or fruitless’ [ Athene ]
• ‘I myself will pick out the best for you,


  and we’ll have her rigged in no time and launch her on the open sea’ [ Athene ]
• ‘It is out of the question for a man to


  Sit down to a quiet supper and take his ease with a rowdy mob like you’ [ Telemachus ]
• ‘Listen, nurse dear, will you draw


  some flagons of wine for me?’ [ Telemachus ]
• The old woman swore by all the


  gods that she would keep his secret
• The bright-eyed goddess Athene


  now had yet another idea
• When they came down to the sea and reached 


  the boat they found their long-haired crew waiting on the beach
• Athene of the flashing eyes


  called up for them a steady following wind
• Telemachus T epithet?

  Thoughtful Telemachus
• Telemachus S epithet?

  Sagacious Telemachus
• Telemachus P epithet?

  Prudent Telemachus