Book 2 - The debate in Ithaca

• Athene endowed him with such supernatural


  grace that all eyes were turned on him in admiration when he came up
• ’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 ]
• A wave of

  pity swept through the gathering
• ‘For three years she


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

  She unpicked the shroud she was sewing
• ‘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 ]
• ‘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 ]
• The bright-eyed goddess Athene


  now had yet another idea
• 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