The Great Bow Challenge
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- Penelope has lost all hope of Odysseus coming back to Ithaca.
- Penelope sets up an archery contest for the suitors to compete for her marriage.
- Penelope goes to her room and grabs Odysseus' bow from the rack that he left behind.
- "Penelope, however, has given up hope for Odysseus' return" (Fitzgerald, 403).
- Penelope tells the suitors that to win her hand in marriage you have to string the bow and shoot it through twelve iron axes in a row.
- "[Penelope]She proposes an archery contest to the suitors, with marriage to her as the prize" (Fitzgerald, 403).
- Some of the suitors accepted the challenge and tried to string the bow together while some watched.
- " '[Penelope]She enters the storeroom and takes down the heavy bow that Odysseus left behind' " (Fitzgerald, 403).
- Odysseus was easily able to string the bow together and shoot through all tweleve axes in a row.
- " '...Here is my lord Odysseus' hunting bow. Bend and string it if you can. Who sends an arrow through iron axe-helve sockets, twelve in line...' "(21. 35-37).
- "Despite heating and greasing the bow, the lesser suitors prove unable to string it. The most able suitors, Antinous and Eurymachus, hold off" (Fitzgerald, 404).
- " 'Odysseus in one motion strung the bow...Now flashed through every socket ring, and grazed not one, to thud with heavy brazen head beyond' " (21. 111-127).
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