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wedding presents made by the suitors to Penelope

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wedding presents made by the suitors to Penelope
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Location presence

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Penelope’s room1 observation
·Direct

The suitors’ presents were brought after Penelope into her upstairs room.

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“Then the queen went back to her room upstairs, and her maids brought the presents after her. Meanwhile the suitors took to singing and dancing, and stayed till evening came. They danced and sang till it grew dark; they then brought in three braziers {151} to give light, and piled them up with chopped firewood very old and dry, and they lit torches from them, which the maids held up turn and turn about. Then Ulysses said: ”

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·Reported

The suitors make wedding presents to Penelope during their courtship.

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“making wedding presents to her”

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·Reported
“courting your wife and making wedding presents to her”
·Direct
“each one sent his servant to bring his present”

Passage preview

Book 13 · Passage 32

‘Ulysses,’ said Minerva, ‘noble son of Laertes, think how you can lay hands on these disreputable people who have been lording it in your house these three years, courting your wife and making wedding presents to her, while she does nothing but lament your absence, giving hope and sending encouraging messages {123} to every one of them, but meaning the very opposite of all she says.’