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room over the gateway in Alcinous’s house

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Canonical name
room over the gateway in Alcinous’s house
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Location
Scope
Individual
Parent location
Alcinous’s house
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

2

room that was in the gatehouse

Descriptive reference · Direct

room over the echoing gateway

Descriptive reference · Direct

Present entities

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bed prepared for Ulysses in Alcinous’s gatehouseItem2 observations
·Direct

The bed prepared for Ulysses was made in the gatehouse room.

See evidence text
“Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear. The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said, ‘Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready,’ and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.”
·Direct

Ulysses’s prepared bed stood in the room over the gateway.

See evidence text
“So Ulysses slept in a bed placed in a room over the echoing gateway; but Alcinous lay in the inner part of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.”
Nausicaa’s mother’s maidsCharacter1 observation
·Direct

Arete’s maids made Ulysses’s bed in the gatehouse room.

See evidence text
“Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear. The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said, ‘Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready,’ and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.”
red rugs, coverlets, and woollen cloaks prepared for UlyssesItem1 observation
·Direct

The red rugs, coverlets, and woollen cloaks were spread in the gatehouse room.

See evidence text
“Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear. The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said, ‘Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready,’ and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.”
torches carried by Arete’s maidsItem1 observation
·Direct

Arete’s maids carried their torches into the gatehouse room while making the bed.

See evidence text
“Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear. The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said, ‘Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready,’ and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.”
UlyssesCharacter1 observation
·Direct

Ulysses slept in the room over the gateway.

See evidence text
“So Ulysses slept in a bed placed in a room over the echoing gateway; but Alcinous lay in the inner part of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.”

Claims

2
·Direct

The gatehouse room is where Arete orders a bed prepared for Ulysses.

See evidence text
“Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear.”
·Direct

The room over the echoing gateway contains the bed where Ulysses sleeps.

See evidence text
“Ulysses slept in a bed placed in a room over the echoing gateway”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse”
·Direct
“a room over the echoing gateway”

Passage preview

Book 7 · Passage 28

Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear. The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said, ‘Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready,’ and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.