PSYC 2022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jamb, Omen, The Sequence
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Action: telemakhos returns to the house and is welcomed by penelope, telemakhos entertains peiraios and theoklyemenos, penelope asks for news, telemakhos replies, theoklymenos prophesies the return of odysseus: Odysseus walked along, debating inwardly whether to whirl and beat the life out of this fellow with his stick . Then he controlled himself, and bore it quietly . While he spoke an old hound, lying near, pricked up his ears and lifted up his muzzle. This was argos, trained as a puppy by odysseus, but never taken on a hunt before his master sailed for troy . He had grown old in his master"s absence. Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last. But when he knew he heard upon mass of dung before the gates . Odysseus" voice nearby, he did his best to wag his tail, nose down, with flattened ears, having no strength to move nearer his master.