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Phemius’s lyre

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Canonical name: Phemius’s lyre
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Item
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

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Ulysses’ house1 observation

·Direct

Phemius carried and played his lyre in Ulysses’s house.

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“Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said. First they washed and put their shirts on, while the women got ready. Then Phemius took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance. The house re-echoed with the sound of men and women dancing, and the people outside said, ‘I suppose the queen has been getting married at last. She ought to be ashamed of herself for not continuing to protect her husband’s property until he comes home.’ {182} ”

Claims

·Direct

Phemius touches his lyre as he begins to sing.

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“As soon as he touched his lyre and began to sing”

·Direct

Phemius holds his lyre while deciding how to seek safety, then lays it between the mixing bowl and silver-studded seat before supplicating Ulysses.

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“held his lyre in his hand. He did not know whether to fly out of the cloister and sit down by the altar of Jove that was in the outer court, and on which both Laertes and Ulysses had offered up the thigh bones of many an ox, or whether to go straight up to Ulysses and embrace his knees, but in the end he deemed it best to embrace Ulysses’ knees. So he laid his lyre on the ground between the mixing bowl {175} and the silver-studded seat”

·Hypothetical

Phemius’s lyre is to provide a dance tune for the false impression of a wedding.

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“Phemius shall then strike up a dance tune on his lyre, so that if people outside hear, or any of the neighbours, or some one going along the street happens to notice it, they may think there is a wedding in the house”

·Direct

Phemius takes his lyre and stirs longing for sweet song and stately dance.

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“Then Phemius took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“As soon as he touched his lyre”

·Direct

“held his lyre in his hand”

·Direct

“Then Phemius took his lyre”