Book 23

PENELOPE EVENTUALLY RECOGNISES HER HUSBAND—EARLY IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, EUMAEUS, AND PHILOETIUS LEAVE THE TOWN.

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Passage 1

Lines 4–5

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Source text

Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her. ‘Wake up Penelope, my dear child,’ she exclaimed, ‘and see with your own eyes something that you have been wanting this long time past. Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son.’

Location presence

the suitors Ulysses’ house

·Reported

Euryclea reported that the suitors had been causing trouble in Ulysses’s house.

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“Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her. ‘Wake up Penelope, my dear child,’ she exclaimed, ‘and see with your own eyes something that you have been wanting this long time past. Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son.’ ”

Ulysses Ulysses’ house

·Reported

Euryclea reported that Ulysses had come home to his house.

See evidence text

“Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her. ‘Wake up Penelope, my dear child,’ she exclaimed, ‘and see with your own eyes something that you have been wanting this long time past. Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son.’ ”

Claims for this passage

Euryclea·Character·Direct

Euryclea laughs and moves upstairs with joy so intense that her aged knees seem young and her feet nimble.

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“Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy”

the suitors·Character·Reported

Euryclea reports that the suitors troubled Ulysses’s house, consumed his estate, mistreated his son, and were killed by him.

See evidence text

“Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son”

Ulysses·Character·Reported

Euryclea reports that Ulysses has returned and killed the suitors who consumed his estate and mistreated his son.

See evidence text

“Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son”

Published summary

Euryclea joyfully wakes her mistress, whom she addresses as ‘Penelope,’ and reports that Ulysses has returned and killed the suitors who troubled his house, consumed his estate, and mistreated his son.