Book 7 - The palace of Alcinous

• Odysseus M epithet?

  Much-enduring Odysseus
• Athene, in her concern for


  His welfare, enveloped him in a thick mist
• ‘The people who look on her


  like a goddess, and greet her when she walks through the town’ [ Athene ]
• ‘For she is also

  a wise woman’ [ Athene ]
• ‘She settles even


  men’s disputes’ [ Athene ]
• His heart was filled with 


  varied emotions and he kept on stopping before he reached the bronze threshold
• On either side stood gold


  and silver dogs, which Hephaestus had made with consummate skill
• Such were the glorious


  gifts the gods had bestowed on Alcinous’ home
• The much-enduring good Odysseus walked straight


  Up the hall, wrapped in the mist that Athene shed about him, till he reached Arete and King Alcinous and threw his arms around Arete’s knees
• ‘I come a suppliant to your


  husband, to you and to your guests’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘We may now make a

  drink-offering to Zeus the Thunderer, patron of suppliants, who deserves respect’ [ Alcinous ]
• ‘I have neither the look nor

  the stature of the immortal gods who live in heaven‘ [ Odysseus ]
• ’I myself will question you


  and ask you this first. Who are you?’ [ Arete ]
• ‘It would be wearisome to


  tell you all my troubles from the first to last, for the gods have sent me so many’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘I was alone, for with one of


  his blinding bolts Zeus had smashed my good ship to pieces’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘The princess herself was with them,


  looking like a goddess. I asked for help. And she proved what good sense she has’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘We men are 


  naturally suspicious’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘I wish that a man like you,


  like-minded with myself, could have my daughter and remain here as my son-in-law’ [ Alcinous ]