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Gentle waves lap against the Ithacian shore line as Odysseus has finally reached his native homeland. Rumors of the great turmoil that has rocked Odysseus’ home land and house has reached him abroad. After hearing the news, he decides to don a beggar’s ....

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.... to her husband. If she did not still love him, he might think twice about revealing his identity to his wife and to the island of Ithaca. He wants to get a feeling of how Penelope feels towards him before he reveals himself to her. The beggar assures Penelope that he has really spent some time with her husband in Amnisus because there was a terrible storm and, “Then on the thirteenth day the wind died down and they set sail for Troy (Homer 397, 19.233-234).” There are two statements that reassure Penelope that the beggar does know Odysseus. “So I took Odysseus back to my own house, gave him a hero’s welcome, treated him in s ....