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house of Arceisius

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Canonical name
house of Arceisius
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None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
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Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Hypothetical

The house of Arceisius faces the suitors’ intended extinction in Ithaca if Telemachus is killed.

See evidence text
“in the hope of leaving the house of Arceisius without a name in Ithaca”

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Reported
“the house of Arceisius without a name in Ithaca”
·Reported
“Jove has made us a race of only sons. Laertes was the only son of Arceisius”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 10

To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, ‘Old man, you will neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses ever come home; drink your wine in peace, and let us talk about something else. Do not keep on reminding me of all this; it always pains me when any one speaks about my honoured master. As for your oath we will let it alone, but I only wish he may come, as do Penelope, his old father Laertes, and his son Telemachus. I am terribly unhappy too about this same boy of his; he was running up fast into manhood, and bade fare to be no worse man, face and figure, than his father, but some one, either god or man, has been unsettling his mind, so he has gone off to Pylos to try and get news of his father, and the suitors are lying in wait for him as he is coming home, in the hope of leaving the house of Arceisius without a name in Ithaca. But let us say no more about him, and leave him to be taken, or else to escape if the son of Saturn holds his hand over him to protect him. And now, old man, tell me your own story; tell me also, for I want to know, who you are and where you come from. Tell me of your town and parents, what manner of ship you came in, how crew brought you to Ithaca, and from what country they professed to come—for you cannot have come by land.’