Wednesday, 25 March 2009

The Odyssey: Book Twenty-Two

Struck down by an arrow, Antinous is slain
"Yes! I am Odysseus - I've come back home again!"
The door is blocked, the suitors are all trapped inside the hall
Odysseus, his son and friends proceed to kill them all
The singer and the herald are allowed to go free
But the treacherous goatherd is tortured horribly
A dozen of the servant girls are judged to have been loose
and disrespectful, so their heads go in the noose

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