Top 3 Significant Scenes in Book 24
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- This scene is very significant because it shows us the underworld and it also shows that Achilles and Agamemnon were never buried after they had died.
- They had grouped around Achilles’ ghost, and now the shade of Atreus’ son Agamemnon marched toward them fraught with grief and flanked by all his comrades,troops of his men-at-arms who died beside him,
- He sprang toward him, kissed him, hugged him, crying,“Father —I am your son —myself, the man you’re seeking,360 home after twenty years, on native ground at last!Hold back your tears, your grief.Let me tell you the news, but we must hurry —I’ve cut the suitors down in our own house,I’ve paid them back their outrage, vicious crimes!”
- This scene is significant to the book because it is the first time that Laertes has seen Odysseus in a very long time. Odysseus was going to test Laertes but at the end he gave up and decided to tell him that it was his son.
- Athena wheeled on Odysseus, crying, “Royal son of Laertes, Odysseus, master of exploits, hold back now! Call a halt to the great leveler, War don’t court the rage of Zeus who rules the world!”
- This scene is significant to the book because they were going to have a war just after Odysseus and Laertes get back together but Zeus and Athena stop them so they can go back to Ithaka safe and be back together.
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