1. Book 17

2.  Telemachos plans to reveal himself to Penelope  Relate experience in Pylos and Sparta  Sends Odysseus to the palace to beg  Eumaois obeys despite reservations

3.  Telemachos and Theoklymenos welcomed  Bathed and fed  Advises Penelope to dress and sacrifice for forgiveness  Little knowledge from Nestor and Menelaos Old man in the sea:  Destruction at the hands of the gods  Detainment by Calypso  Fugitive relates birds’ omen- Odysseus is alive and in Ithica

4.  Welcome Telemachos while devising death  Peiraois to store goods- in the event of death

5.  Harsh treatment  Wretched company  The kick  Odysseus’s resilience

6.  Melanthios warns he will be attacked by the hands of heroes  Hopes for Telemachos’ death  Gloats over lost homecoming

7.  Aroma of food and sounds of music  Argos, recognition and death  The begging begins

8.  Denies alms  Argues there is not enough food to support beggars  Accuses Telemachas of insolence

9. Odysseus once lived in a Palace Met misfortunes in the gods’ hands Disaster in Egypt Antinoos warns Ithica = Egypt If the beggar keeps ruining the feast with his begging! Antinoos throws the stool

10.  Suitors fear  Reprimand Antinoos  The curse- death before marriage

11.  Enraged by the ill treatment towards a guest  Requests a visit  The beggar refuses until sundown.