History & The Arts
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
...sang of the Achaeans’ return home, a bitter ordeal, sent them by Pallas Athena after they left Troy. In her upstairs room the daughter of Icarius, circumspect Penelope, heard and understood his divinely inspired song, and came down the tall staircase from her part of the house, [330] not on her own, but attended by two women servants. When she, glorious among women,...