The Odyssey. Books 13-18
general points:
third deployment of WDR pattern
suppression of individual identity
anti-paradise of suitors
Book 13
Odysseus' nostos
eastward voyage
night/sleep/dream
Cretan lie/Athena's affection
disguise
Odysseus' rebuke/Athena's absence from Enchanted Realm
Athena: beware of Penelope
alternate scenarios (cf. Book 4)
Odysseus' twofold text
Book 14
pious Eumaios (vs. suitors)
loyal
sacrifices
xenia
Odysseus and suitors' behavior
audience and suitors' behavior
Cretan tale (cf. Ciconian episode)
Odysseus' nostos imminent-tension!
Book 15
triptych: Telemachus-Odysseus-Telemachus
Telemachus
Athena's warning (negative Penelope scenario)
his nostos
Odysseus' test
Telemachus
arrives
omen-hawk kills dove
dual reference
to Eumaius' hut
Book 16
diptych: Odysseus/Telemachus/Eumaios-the Suitors
Eumaius and Telemachus reunite
Telemachus' question
Telemachus' xenia (vs. suitors' in the past and future)
Penelope's strategy
Penelope periphron
alternate scenarios/traditions re. Penelope
Odysseus and Telemachus reunite
Odysseus' two-fold test
(most) suitors' plot vs. Telamachus
tension-final wooing
Book 17
Telemachus' message to Penelope
Odysseus' nostos imminent-tension!
omen of Book 15 reinterpreted
impious Melanthius
Argus as symbol of loyalty
Odysseus' test: un-Iliadic heroism as beggar
plan of Athena: two-fold test
Antinous and stool
his moral status reaffirmed
Book 18
Irus as double of suitors/foreshadowing
Amphinomous
desirable Penelope as prize
now time for remarriage/Telemachus' beard
periphron Penelope-gifts (Odysseus proud)
threat of Antinous-ultimatum
tension
Melantho (proleptic contrast with Eurycleia)-Melanthius' counterpart
Odysseus' test
Eurymachus and stool
Telemachus' rebuke-adult
Amphinomous-piety