The Odyssey Chapter Summary & Analysis - Book 19 Summary

Book 19 Summary

When the suitors go to sleep that night, Telemachus and Odysseus move forward with their plan and remove all the weapons with Athena lighting their way. Telemachus then goes to bed while Penelope comes from her room to meet the stranger, who is Odysseus. She questions his honesty, asking him to describe her husband, and he does intricately. Penelope starts to cry as Odysseus relates how he, as the beggar, met Odysseus and then came to Ithaca. He tells her that Odysseus had a difficult journey, but he is alive and predicts that he will return within a month.

Grateful, Penelope offers Odysseus a bed, but he declines, saying he is used to sleeping on the floor. He reluctantly allows Eurycleia to wash his feet, but she embraces Odysseus when she recognizes the scar on his foot from when he went boar hunting with his grandfather, Autolycus. He tells her...
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