Telemachus Relationship In The Odyssey

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2. Eurymachus tried to change violence because Odyssey was trying to prove to the suitors that he was Odysseus and he shot an arrow that no one ever hit, instead he shot an arrow at a man and the arrow feathers hit the chain which made him drop his wine he was drinking from. B) Odysseus replied when Eurymachus said that he going to have bloodshed that Odyssey came into combat mode so quickly.
3. The nurse and Telemachus tried to convince Penelope that the stranger is Odysseus and that they had to question him. B) Penelope wasn’t clear about what to do because she thinks that Odyssey died on the island of troy and Odysseus looks alot different from the last time they saw each other.
4. Odysseus proving himself to his wife different from the

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