This weekend as I was finishing the Odyssey I noticed another parrallel between Odysseus and Penelope. When Penelope is told that Odysseus has returned, she is described as ‘her heart pondering much, whether [to do this] or [to do that], much as Odysseus is continually considering two options in his heart and choosing the one he thinks best. This seemed to fit nicely with how she was also like Odysseus while tricking the suitors into giving her gifts while keeping another thing in his heart. Though this time, Odysseus is not nearly as pleased when she chooses to restrain herself until Odyssues has managed to prove his identity to her.
Aside from this I would also like to take on last oportunity to vent about Homer’s dead spirits, in a medium where you all can just ignore me.
How is that the heroes in the underworld in Book 24 are able to share stories with each other? Surely, if they had been able to do that previosly Achilles would already know of all the honor his son had recieved before having to ask Odysseus about it becuase Agamemmnon could have told him. Did Odysseus leave extra blood behind for them to keep drinking or something? It seems strange to me that Homer would be inconnsistant on something like this when he is so careful during the rest of the story.
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