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Cliff notes for the odyssey6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() He knew about the bed, so she believes that he is truly her husband returned to her at last. The bed has not moved just as her love for him has remained constant. Penelope then runs to him and kisses his face because she was testing him. He knows that the only way that she could move it into the hall for him is if some man has gone into his bedroom and cut down the tree, which would mean she had been unfaithful. ![]() He built their bed into the trunk of a tree and fashioned their bedroom around it. Odysseus then asks to go to sleep, so Penelope offers to bring her own large bed into the hall for him to use. Odysseus is then bathed and dressed and seated before his wife who remains obstinate in her belief that he cannot truly have returned. He tells Telemachus to allow Penelope to question her husband if she must in order for him to prove himself to her. Her son Telemachus also assures her that it is truly his father, but Odysseus doesn't mind her doubt. Eurycleia assures her that she has seen the scar on Odysseus's foot and believes it is truly him, but Penelope isn't sure. She doesn't understand how he was able to defeat so many men on his own. In book twenty-three Eurycleia runs up to tell Penelope that her husband has returned, and he has killed all the suitors. ![]()
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