The Oddyssey pt. 2
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- "Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick and shut them in a pigsty-"(Homer 1225)
- Circe turned Oddyseus' men into pigs because she believed that she had been taken advantage of.
- Penelope tests the suitors as a strategy. She knows that Odysseus is the only person capable of completing this challenge. This shows her loyalty to her husband.
- "Bow and string it if you can. Who sends an arrow through iron axe-helve sockets, twelve in line? I join my life with his..." (Homer 1252)
- "Women by heaven you've stung me now... No mortal in his best days could budge it with a crowbar. There is our pact and pledge, our secret sign, built into that bed..." (Homer 1264)
- Penelope is testing Oddysseus to make sure that he is not a god. She mentions that she was going to move their bed that was built from the trunk of an olive tree rooted in the ground (unmovable). Odysseus knows that something like this would be impossible. This showed Penelope that he was real.
- "Make up his bed for him Eurycleia. Place it outside the bedchamber my Lord built with his own hands." (Homer 1264)
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