Item · Individual

chest holding Ulysses’s Phaeacian gifts

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Canonical name: chest holding Ulysses’s Phaeacian gifts
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Item
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

strong box

Alternative name · Direct

Location presence

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sea shore used by Ulysses’s Phaeacian escort crew1 observation

·Direct

Ulysses’s strong box was carried to the sea shore.

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“As he spoke he crossed the threshold, and Alcinous sent a man to conduct him to his ship and to the sea shore. Arete also sent some maidservants with him—one with a clean shirt and cloak, another to carry his strong box, and a third with corn and wine. When they got to the water side the crew took these things and put them on board, with all the meat and drink; but for Ulysses they spread a rug and a linen sheet on deck that he might sleep soundly in the stern of the ship. Then he too went on board and lay down without a word, but the crew took every man his place and loosed the hawser from the pierced stone to which it had been bound. Thereon, when they began rowing out to sea, Ulysses fell into a deep, sweet, and almost deathlike slumber. {111} ”

Claims

·Reported

Alcinous orders the household’s best chest used to hold a clean cloak and shirt for Ulysses.

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“fetch the best chest we have, and put a clean cloak and shirt in it”

·Direct

Arete’s magnificent chest holds the beautiful Phaeacian presents of gold and raiment, plus Alcinous’s cloak and shirt.

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“a magnificent chest from her own room, and inside it she packed all the beautiful presents of gold and raiment which the Phaeacians had brought. Lastly she added a cloak and a good shirt from Alcinous,”

·Reported

Arete directs that the gift chest be lidded and bound against robbery during Ulysses’s voyage.

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“See to the lid yourself, and have the whole bound round at once, for fear any one should rob you by the way when you are asleep in your ship”

·Direct

Ulysses lids the gift chest and secures it with a bond taught by Circe.

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“he put the lid on the chest and made it fast with a bond that Circe had taught him”

·Direct

Ulysses’s strong box is carried to the escort ship.

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“Arete also sent some maidservants with him—one with a clean shirt and cloak, another to carry his strong box, and a third with corn and wine. When they got to the water side the crew took these things and put them on board”

Additional evidence

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·Direct

“Arete brought a magnificent chest from her own room”

·Direct

“another to carry his strong box”