Hello this is let's talk about myths baby and I am your host live here with more of the

Odyssey the Odyssey I have been reading to you guys chapters from Homer since really almost

the beginning of the pandemic and the idea that we're now ending or nearing the end of

the Odyssey is I mean it's all daunting we all know how long this has been going on but

something about me having read to incredibly long works of epic poetry to you all weekly

just heightens it a little bit for me but thankfully all of that is tempered by the

love I have for Odysseus

this is Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler book 19 Odysseus was left in the

cloister pondering on the means whereby with Minerva's help he might be able to kill

the suitors presently he said to telemicus telemicus we must get the armor together

and take it down inside make some excuse when the suitors ask you why you have removed

it say that you have taken it to be out of the way of the smoke in as much as it is

no longer what it was when Odysseus went away but has become soiled and begrined with

suit add to this more particularly that you are afraid jove may set them on to quarrel

over their wine and that they may do each other some harm which may disgrace both banquet

and wooing for the sight of arms sometimes tempt people to use them telemicus approved

of what his father had said so he called nurse Eurichlia and said nurse shut the women

up in their room while I take the armor that my father left behind him down into the

storeroom no one looks after it now my father is gone and it has got all smirched with

suit during my own boyhood I want to take it down where the smoke cannot reach it I wish

child answered Eurichlia that you would take management of the house into your own hands

all together and look after all the property yourself but who is to go with you and light

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