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| The length of time Odysseus was gone. |
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| Men living in Odysseus' house who were courting his wife and eating his food. |
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| Goddess of war. She disguised Odysseus as a beggar. |
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| Odysseus was disguised as so no one knew he was back. |
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| The swine herd. He helped Odysseus defeat the suitors. |
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| How many suitors were in Odysseus' house when he returned home. |
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| Telemachus and one of the suitors thought Odysseus was one. |
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| Odysseus' dog which died shortly after he returned home. |
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| One of the suitors who was mean to Odysseus and denied him food.This was the first suitor Odysseus shot and killed. |
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| Strange coincidence. Odysseus was denied his own food and Penelope asks the beggar to speak to her about Odysseus and he is actually Odysseus. |
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| Penelope's trick she is playing on the suitors. She is weaving a shroud during the day and she would undo it at night. She did this to delay picking a suitor. She said she would pick one after she finished it, but she never will at that rate. |
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| A grave blanket. Penelope is weaving one for Odysseus' father, Laertes. |
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| How long the beggar tells Penelope it will be until Odysseus returns. |
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| Used in the contest between the suitors. Whoever could string Odysseus' bow and shoot a narrow through 12 axe handle sockets would win Penelope in marriage. |
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| The beggar is the only one able to do the task. |
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| The weapons were locked away by Telemachus so the suitors would not have access to them. |
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| The suitor who said their lives should be spared because Antinous, the worst of the suitors, was dead. He was killed 2nd by Odysseus. |
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| Eurymachus told the suitors to use them the block the arrows. |
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| The suitor who was killed by Telemachus. He was the third one killed. |
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| Athena, Zeus, Eumaeus, Telemachus, a cowherd, and Odysseus |
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| They together defeat the suitors. |
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| Odysseus and Penelope's bed that he made. It is built around a tree in their bedroom. Penelope asked the maid to move the bed knowing it was permanently in the room. She was trying to see if it really was Odysseus because only he would know about the bed. |
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| This is demanded by Athena between Odysseus and the slain suitors. |
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