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great staircase

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Canonical name
great staircase
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Location
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Parent location
Ulysses’ house
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PenelopeCharacter1 observation
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Penelope came down the great staircase.

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came down by the great staircase, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids
Penelope’s handmaidsCharacter1 observation
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Penelope’s two handmaids attended her down the great staircase.

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came down by the great staircase, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids

Claims

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·Direct

Penelope descends by the great staircase from her upstairs room.

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heard his song from her room upstairs, and came down by the great staircase

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came down by the great staircase

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 23

Phemius was still singing, and his hearers sat rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of the return from Troy, and the ills Minerva had laid upon the Achaeans. Penelope, daughter of Icarius, heard his song from her room upstairs, and came down by the great staircase, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids. When she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing posts that supported the roof of the cloisters {8} with a staid maiden on either side of her. She held a veil, moreover, before her face, and was weeping bitterly.