"Amphimedon, what disaster brings you down to the dark world?" All of you, good picked men, and all in your prime" (24. 114-115)
Hermes is escorting the suitors down to the Underworld, due to the fact that they hadn't been buried by Odysseus. They encountered Agamemnon and Achilles as they were heading into the fields of asphodel.
Odysseus went to his father's farm and lodgings, where he found his father laboring and looking like a slave in his fields. Odysseus went to test his father to make sure he knew him, but went too far and caused his father to weep from grief.
"Father - I am your son - myself, the man you're seeking, home after twenty years, on native ground at last! Hold back your tears, your grief" (24. 359-361).
"Hold back, you men of Ithaca, back from brutal war! Break off - shed no more blood - make peace at once!" (24. 584-585).
The families of the suitors mourned the numerous deaths. Eupithes, Antinous' father, started an uprising to punish Odysseus, but he and his crew were ready for battle and would have easily wiped out all of them if Athena hadn't intervened. She terrified the opposing forces and commanded Odysseus to stop fighting.
"Amphimedon, what disaster brings you down to the dark world?" All of you, good picked men, and all in your prime" (24. 114-115)
Hermes is escorting the suitors down to the Underworld, due to the fact that they hadn't been buried by Odysseus. They encountered Agamemnon and Achilles as they were heading into the fields of asphodel.
Odysseus went to his father's farm and lodgings, where he found his father laboring and looking like a slave in his fields. Odysseus went to test his father to make sure he knew him, but went too far and caused his father to weep from grief.
"Father - I am your son - myself, the man you're seeking, home after twenty years, on native ground at last! Hold back your tears, your grief" (24. 359-361).
"Hold back, you men of Ithaca, back from brutal war! Break off - shed no more blood - make peace at once!" (24. 584-585).
The families of the suitors mourned the numerous deaths. Eupithes, Antinous' father, started an uprising to punish Odysseus, but he and his crew were ready for battle and would have easily wiped out all of them if Athena hadn't intervened. She terrified the opposing forces and commanded Odysseus to stop fighting.
"Amphimedon, what disaster brings you down to the dark world?" All of you, good picked men, and all in your prime" (24. 114-115)
Hermes is escorting the suitors down to the Underworld, due to the fact that they hadn't been buried by Odysseus. They encountered Agamemnon and Achilles as they were heading into the fields of asphodel.
Odysseus went to his father's farm and lodgings, where he found his father laboring and looking like a slave in his fields. Odysseus went to test his father to make sure he knew him, but went too far and caused his father to weep from grief.
"Father - I am your son - myself, the man you're seeking, home after twenty years, on native ground at last! Hold back your tears, your grief" (24. 359-361).
"Hold back, you men of Ithaca, back from brutal war! Break off - shed no more blood - make peace at once!" (24. 584-585).
The families of the suitors mourned the numerous deaths. Eupithes, Antinous' father, started an uprising to punish Odysseus, but he and his crew were ready for battle and would have easily wiped out all of them if Athena hadn't intervened. She terrified the opposing forces and commanded Odysseus to stop fighting.
"Amphimedon, what disaster brings you down to the dark world?" All of you, good picked men, and all in your prime" (24. 114-115)
Hermes is escorting the suitors down to the Underworld, due to the fact that they hadn't been buried by Odysseus. They encountered Agamemnon and Achilles as they were heading into the fields of asphodel.
Odysseus went to his father's farm and lodgings, where he found his father laboring and looking like a slave in his fields. Odysseus went to test his father to make sure he knew him, but went too far and caused his father to weep from grief.
"Father - I am your son - myself, the man you're seeking, home after twenty years, on native ground at last! Hold back your tears, your grief" (24. 359-361).
"Hold back, you men of Ithaca, back from brutal war! Break off - shed no more blood - make peace at once!" (24. 584-585).
The families of the suitors mourned the numerous deaths. Eupithes, Antinous' father, started an uprising to punish Odysseus, but he and his crew were ready for battle and would have easily wiped out all of them if Athena hadn't intervened. She terrified the opposing forces and commanded Odysseus to stop fighting.