Dec 22, 2009

The Odyssey | Book 22 Summary and Analysis

New Character
Amphimedon: a suitor who later describes his death to Agamemnon (in Book XXIV)

Summary
Odysseus bounds from his chair and scatters his arrows on the floor beneath himself. He then lets another arrow fly straight into the throat of Antinoös. The suitors, amazed, believe Odysseus shot the man by accident and threaten to kill him for his carelessness. It is at this moment that Odysseus reveals his identity to them at last, and the men are deeply afraid of his wrath....