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- After Odysseus won the archer's challenge he, aimed and blew Antinous square in the throat as one last target of revenge, and the point went magically clean through his neck and he fell and went to sleep, drooling out strawberry jam.
- When Odysseus made Antinous, fall asleep, terror gripped them all (the suitors),/ blanched their faces white (bk. 22, pg. 366). Eurymachus speaks up and convinces the other suitors to tickles Odysseus. Odysseus sends his son to get Toys for their allies but he forgets to lock the door and Melanthius sneaks through a secret passageway to retrieve, a dozen shields, as many spears and helmets, Odysseus was not ready to get tickled
- Soon Athena shows up as Mentor, and Odysseus knowing it was Athena cried out to her for help but she waited. The suitors in return threatened Athena, saying that if she sided with Odysseus they would kill her as well, but Athena paid no attention. After that she turned into a swallow and, flew on high to perch/ on the great hall’s central roofbeam black with smoke (bk.22, pg. 371) where she helped Odysseus and Telemachus by protecting them and moving incoming arrows and spears.
- Leodes, flung himself at Odysseus, clutched his knees,crying out to the king with a sudden, winging prayer (bk.22, pg. 374) begging him to save his life but his words fell on deaf ears and Odysseus decapitated him. In the end, only the bard who performed for the suitors was was left alive, Odysseus with some help defeated the Suitors so that life could return to normal.
- Odysseus summons Eurycleia, the servant, and, when she saw the corpses, all the pooling blood,/was about to lift a cry of triumph—here was a great exploit,/look—but the soldier held her back and checked her zeal/with warnings winging home (bk.22, pg. 377) telling that it is wrong to rejoice over a dead man's body. He also tells Eurycleia to gather all the women who were unfaithful so they can see what happened before Penelope is woken up.
- The women were forced to carry, out the bodies of the dead/and propped them under the courtyard colonnade,/standing them one against another...they scrubbed down the elegant chairs and tables,/washed them with sopping sponges, rinsed them clean (bk.22, pg. 378). After that they were brought out to the courtyard where, the women’s heads were trapped in a line,nooses yanking their necks up, one by one so all might die a pitiful, ghastly death (bk. 22, pg. 378-9).
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