The Odyssey: Book 24
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- Achilles and Agamemnon's argument is significant because it demonstrates the importance of burying the dead in Greek culture and the effects of not burying the dead. Additionally, the crying suitors demonstrate the continued pain Odysseus is inflicting upon them by not burying them.
- "...so even in death your name will never die... / Great glory is yours Achilles...But I?... For my (Agamemnon) return Zeus hatched a pitiful death..." (24. 100-1,103, 105).
- "... the story of our death / the brutal end contrived to take us off. / We were courting the wife of Odysseus..." (24.134-6).
- After years of grief and sadness for his missing son, Laertes is finally able to embrace Odysseus again. This scene is also significant because it demonstrates Nostros, and Odysseus returning to his home and family.
- "'Father--I am your son--myself, the man you're seeking...I've cut the suitors down in our own. house..." (24.359,363)
- "....Laertes' knees went slack, his heart surrounded...His threw his arms around his own dear son..." (24.385,387).
- The attack on Odysseus by the families of the suitors is significant because it fulfills Odysseus' foreshadowing that the suitors' families would come and avenge their deaths. Moreover, it demonstrates intervention by the gods, mainly Athena, to stop battle and fighting.
- "'My friends, what a mortal blow this man [Odysseus] has dealt / to all our island people!...Quick, after him!" (24.471-2, 6).
- "Zeus's daughter Athena marched in" (24.555).
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