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IThe Gods In Council—Athena’S Visit To Ithaca—The Challenge From Telemachus To The Suitors
IIAssembly Of The People Of Ithaca—Speeches Of Telemachus And Of The Suitors—Telemachus Makes His Preparations And Starts For Pylos With Athena Disguised As Mentor
IIITelemachus Visits Nestor At Pylos
IVThe Visit To King Menelaus, Who Tells His Story—Meanwhile The Suitors In Ithaca Plot Against Telemachus
VCalypso—Odysseus Reaches Scheria On A Raft
VIThe Meeting Between Nausicaa And Odysseus
VIIReception Of Odysseus At The Palace Of King Alcinous
VIIIBanquet In The House Of Alcinous—The Games
IXOdysseus Declares Himself And Begins His Story—-The Cicons, Lotophagi, And Cyclopes
XAeolus, The Laestrygones, Circe
XIThe Visit To The Dead.88
XIIThe Sirens, Scylla And Charybdis, The Cattle Of The Sun
XIIIOdysseus Leaves Scheria And Returns To Ithaca
XIVOdysseus In The Hut With Eumaeus
XVAthena Summons Telemachus From Lacedaemon—He Meets With Theoclymenus At Pylos And Brings Him To Ithaca—On Landing He Goes To The Hut Of Eumaeus
XVIOdysseus Reveals Himself To Telemachus
XVIITelemachus And His Mother Meet—Odysseus And Eumaeus Come Down To The Town, And Odysseus Is Insulted By Melanthius—He Is Recognised By The Dog Argos—He Is Insulted And Presently Struck By Antinous With A Stool—Penelope Desires That He Shall Be Sent To Her
XVIIIThe Fight With Irus—Odysseus Warns Amphinomus—Penelope Gets Presents From The Suitors—The Braziers—Odysseus Rebukes Eurymachus
XIXTelemachus And Odysseus Remove The Armour—Odysseus Interviews Penelope—Euryclea Washes His Feet And Recognises The Scar On His Leg—Penelope Tells Her Dream To Odysseus
XXOdysseus Cannot Sleep—Penelope’S Prayer To Artemis—The Two Signs From Heaven—Eumaeus And Philoetius Arrive—The Suitors Dine—Ctesippus Throws An Ox’S Foot At Odysseus—Theoclymenus Foretells Disaster And Leaves The House
XXIThe Trial Of The Axes, During Which Odysseus Reveals Himself To Eumaeus And Philoetius
XXIIThe Killing Of The Suitors—The Maids Who Have Misconducted Themselves Are Made To Cleanse The Cloisters And Are Then Hanged
XXIIIPenelope Eventually Recognises Her Husband—Early In The Morning Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, And Philoetius Leave The Town
XXIVThe Ghosts Of The Suitors In Hades—Odysseus And His Men Go To The House Of Laertes—The People Of Ithaca Come Out To Attack Odysseus, But Athena Concludes A Peace
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