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above the hall. The suitors, recognizing the intervention of the gods on Odysseus’behalf, are frantic to escape but to no avail. Odysseus and his men are compared tofalcons who show no mercy to the flocks of birds they pursue and capture. Soon theroom is reeking with blood. Thus the battle with the suitors comes to an end, andOdysseus prepares himself to meet Penelope.Death of the Suitors: The Odyssey (1944), Henry Spencer Moore. Black chalk, wash, and ink on paper, 13.3 cm ×28.8 cm. Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Photo © Bridgeman Art Library.© The Henry Moore Foundation. This image may not be reproduced or altered without prior consent from theHenry Moore Foundation.the homecoming: book 22 1161
ook 23:The Trunk of the Olive TreeANALYZE VISUALSThis terracotta plaque from ancientGreece depicts Odysseus pleadingwith his wife. What can you tellabout this moment in the story fromlooking at this image? Explain.51015Greathearted Odysseus, home at last,was being bathed now by Eurynomeand rubbed with golden oil, and clothed againin a fresh tunic and a cloak. Athenalent him beauty, head to foot. She made himtaller, and massive, too, with crisping hairin curls like petals of wild hyacinthbut all red-golden. Think of gold infusedon silver by a craftsman, whose fine artHephaestus taught him, or Athena: onewhose work moves to delight: just so she lavishedbeauty over Odysseus’ head and shoulders.He sat then in the same chair by the pillar,facing his silent wife, and said:“Strange woman,the immortals of Olympus made you hard,harder than any. Who else in the worldwould keep aloof as you do from her husbandif he returned to her from years of trouble,cast on his own land in the twentieth year?2 Eurynome (yM-rGnPE-mC): a femaleservant.10 Hephaestus (hG-fDsPtEs): the godof metalworking.11 lavished: showered.15 immortals of Olympus: the gods,who live on Mount Olympus.aloof (E-lLfP) adj. distant; remote;standoffish20Nurse, make up a bed for me to sleep on.Her heart is iron in her breast.”25spoke to Odysseus now. She said:Penelope“Strange man,if man you are . . . This is no pride on my partnor scorn for you—not even wonder, merely.I know so well how you—how he—appearedboarding the ship for Troy. But all the same . . . rr EPICReread lines 22–26. What do youthink is the motivation for Penelope’sskepticism about this man whoclaims to be the husband she hasn’tseen in 20 years? Consider herexperiences in his absence.1162 unit 11: the odysseyDetail of plaque with the return of Odysseus (about 460–450 b.c.). Classical Greek. Melian.Terracotta, height 7 3 /8˝. Fletcher Fund, 1930. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art (30.11.9).
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