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- Book 17: The Beggar at the Manor
- Odysseus is a dead fool!
- Odysseus in disguise
- Book 19: Recognitions and a Dream
- Book 21: The Test of the Bow
- When Odysseus returns to the manor disguised as an old beggar, he is surprised to find the suitors speaking of him in such an aggressive manor. "'Listen to him! The swine can talk your arm off, like an old oven woman! With two punches I'd knock him snoring, if I had a mind to--and not a tooth left in his head, the same as an old sow caught in the corn!'" pg. 336
- Book 22: Death in the Great Hall
- Odysseus and Telemachus devise a plan to take away the suitors weapons in order to make them powerless. Meanwhile, Penelope decides to choose a new husband through a competition. "Here now he lay, waiting for dawn, while in the great hall by Athena's side Odysseus waited with his mind on slaughter." pg. 355
- Book 23: The Trunk of the Olive Tree
- Odysseus, my love!
- In order to choose her next husband, Penelope holds a competition where the suitor attempting must shoot an arrow through several lined up axeheads. Odysseus, still in disguise, shoots through all of them effortlessly and wows the crowd of suitors. "'Telemakhos, the stranger you welcomed in the hall has not disgraced you. I did not miss, neither did I take all day stringing the bow. My hand and eye are sound, not so contemptible as the young men say.'" pg. 405
- Book 24: Warriors, Farewell
- Be peaceful!
- Athena helps Odysseus reveal himself to the suitors by killing them, along with the most powerful one, Anitinous. He reclaims his throne. "He hurled himself at Odysseus. But the kingly man let fly an arrow that instant, and the quivering feathered butt sprang to the nipple of his breast as the barb stuck in his liver." pg. 411
- After asking Odysseus to move their bed, which was built into the core of their house, to prove that he was actually Odysseus, she ran to him and cried, finally being with her love once again after years of being apart. "Their secret! As she heard it told, her knees grew tremulous and weak, her heart failed her. With eyes brimming, she ran to him." pg. 435
- After the suitor's families learn of what has happened, they almost start a fight, but in order to stop chaos from erupting onto Ithaca, Athena makes all accept Odysseus as their king. "'Son of Laerties and the gods of old, Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways, command yourself. Call off this battle now, or Zeus who views the wide world may be angry.'" pg. 462
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