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There never were such bullies as these men,
and they intend us harm.
The Odyssey (2017)
Penelope
decided she must show herself to these
ungentlemanly suitors.
The Odyssey (2017)
Demeter with the cornrows in her hair.
The Odyssey (2017)
They did great wrong,
through their impulsiveness; they skimmed the wealth
of an important man, and disrespected
his wife, believing he would never come.
The Odyssey (2017)
She went up
to her own room. Her muscular, firm hand
picked up the ivory handle of the key—
a hook of bronze.
The Odyssey (2017)
Zeus, the god of home owners.
The Odyssey (2017)
She told her slaves with tidy hair,
"Now listen to me, girls! The gods who live
on Mount Olympus must have wished this man
to come into contact with my godlike people.
Before, he looked so poor and unrefined;
now he is like a god that lives in heaven."
The Odyssey (2017)
"Now I have told the secret trick, the token.
But woman, wife, I do not know if someone—
a man—has cut the olive trunk and moved
my bed, or if it is still safe."
At that,
her heart and body suddenly relaxed.
She recognized the tokens he had shown her.
The Odyssey (2017)
He ripped them limb by limb to make his meal,
then ate them like a lion on the mountains,
devouring flesh, entrails, and marrow bones,
and leaving nothing. Watching this disaster,
we wept and lifted up our hands in prayer
to Zeus.
The Odyssey (2017)
I never saw two people so alike
as this boy and Telemachus, the son
of spirited Odysseus, the child
he left behind, a little newborn baby,
the day the Greeks marched off to Troy, their minds
fixated on the war and violence.
They made my face the cause that hounded them.
The Odyssey (2017)