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women’s apartments
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The women were to be shut inside their room.
“Telemachus approved of what his father had said, so he called nurse Euryclea and said, ‘Nurse, shut the women up in their room, while I take the armour that my father left behind him down into the store room. No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood. I want to take it down where the smoke cannot reach it.’ ”
The women were bolted inside their room.
“Euryclea did as she was told, and bolted the women inside their room. Then Ulysses and his son made all haste to take the helmets, shields, and spears inside; and Minerva went before them with a gold lamp in her hand that shed a soft and brilliant radiance, whereon Telemachus said, ‘Father, my eyes behold a great marvel: the walls, with the rafters, crossbeams, and the supports on which they rest are all aglow as with a flaming fire. Surely there is some god here who has come down from heaven.’ ”
Ulysses ordered the house maids to go to their own room and dress.
“‘I will say what I think will be best,’ answered Ulysses. ‘First wash and put your shirts on; tell the maids also to go to their own room and dress; 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, and no rumours about the death of the suitors will get about in the town, before we can escape to the woods upon my own land. Once there, we will settle which of the courses heaven vouchsafes us shall seem wisest.’ ”
Euryclea remembered crouching in a corner of the women’s room.
“‘I was not there,’ answered Euryclea, ‘and do not know; I only heard them groaning while they were being killed. We sat crouching and huddled up in a corner of the women’s room with the doors closed, till your son came to fetch me because his father sent him. Then I found Ulysses standing over the corpses that were lying on the ground all round him, one on top of the other. You would have enjoyed it if you could have seen him standing there all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just like a lion. But the corpses are now all piled up in the gatehouse that is in the outer court, and Ulysses has lit a great fire to purify the house with sulphur. He has sent me to call you, so come with me that you may both be happy together after all; for now at last the desire of your heart has been fulfilled; your husband is come home to find both wife and son alive and well, and to take his revenge in his own house on the suitors who behaved so badly to him.’ ”
The women’s room is the place from which the maids enter to wake Penelope.
“the maids came in from the women’s room ”
Ulysses orders the women’s apartment closed so its occupants stay quietly at work even if they hear fighting.
“tell the women to close the doors of their apartment. If they hear any groaning or uproar as of men fighting about the house, they must not come out; they must keep quiet, and stay where they are at their work”
Euryclea closes the doors of the women’s apartments.
“did as she was told and closed the doors of the women’s apartments”
Telemachus knocks at the door of the women’s room to summon Euryclea.
“knocked at the door of the women’s room”
The women’s room sheltered the household women as they crouched in a corner behind its closed doors during the killings.
“We sat crouching and huddled up in a corner of the women’s room with the doors closed”
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“the maids came in from the women’s room”
“the women inside their room”
“the doors of the women’s apartments”
“closed the doors of the women’s apartments”
“Telemachus went and knocked at the door of the women’s room”
“a corner of the women’s room with the doors closed”