Plot summary episode 7 the keepers
They consume their food and abuse their hospitality while waiting for Penelope to decide which one of them to marry. Odysseus’ son makes a case against the suitors, young aristocrats who have overtaken his home. The old man Aegyptius praises Telemachus for taking charge. The assembly gathers for the first time in twenty years. He agrees and calls for an assembly to take place the next day. She advises that Telemachus must finally stand up against the suitors that have taken residence in his home. Athena explains that his father is alive and that he is going to come back very soon. There she talks with the king’s son, Telemachus. After, she disguises herself as Mentes, an old friend of Odysseus, and travels to Ithaca. She tells it Zeus, who reassures her he still cares for her favorite mortal. “…my heart breaks for Odysseus, that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long.” (1:57-58) She is begging him to let Odysseus go home and asks him to send a messenger to demand his freedom. Athena, the daughter of Zeus, the king of gods, is pleading with her father. A divine council of gods takes place on Mount Olympus.
We learn that the hero is held on the island of the nymph Calypso and that she wants to marry him.īack home, his wife Penelope is being harassed by suitors who want to marry her. He asks the Muse of Poetry to tell the story of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, the survivor of the Trojan War, and a man of many twists and turns of fate. Homer begins his tale with an invocation.