PSYC 2022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hut 3, Theoclymenus, Eumaeus
22 Aug 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Book 15: telemakhos returns: telemakhos comes back from the mainland (where he has received xenie, odysseus receives xenie in eumaios" hut, two omens predicting the return of odysseus and the destruction of the suitors. Odysseus were there, if he could hear me tell of all the courtesy i have had from you, returning with your finery and your treasure. Even as he spoke, a beat of wings went skyward off to the right a mountain eagle, grappling a white goose in his talons, heavy prey hooked from a farmyard . Zeus on olympos only knows if some dark hour for [the suitors] will intervene. The words were barely spoken, when a hawk, Clutching a dove and plucking her so feathers floated down to the ground between telemakhos and the moored cutter. Theoklymenos called him apart and gripped his hand, whispering: A god spoke in this bird-sign on the right. favorable to the person who sees them.
