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... Eurycleia runs upstairs to her , laughing and stumbling and saying " Odysseus is here , " Penelope tells her to go away . " Why dost thou mock me , who have a heart full of sorrow , to tell me this wild tale , and dost rouse me out of ...
... Eurycleia runs upstairs to her , laughing and stumbling and saying " Odysseus is here , " Penelope tells her to go away . " Why dost thou mock me , who have a heart full of sorrow , to tell me this wild tale , and dost rouse me out of ...
Page 59
... Eurycleia , arise and wash the feet of one of like age with thy master . " And Eurycleia proceeds to do so , letting fall hot tears because this stranger is most like Odysseus of all men who have come to Ithaca since its master left ...
... Eurycleia , arise and wash the feet of one of like age with thy master . " And Eurycleia proceeds to do so , letting fall hot tears because this stranger is most like Odysseus of all men who have come to Ithaca since its master left ...
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... Eurycleia's discovery , does so with the aid of the fact that the scene is central to the poem ; this moment is the one toward which time has been hastening since Telemachus first felt shame because his father's honor was abused ; and ...
... Eurycleia's discovery , does so with the aid of the fact that the scene is central to the poem ; this moment is the one toward which time has been hastening since Telemachus first felt shame because his father's honor was abused ; and ...
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