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Often appears with: hospitality and the guest · the fear of death · sacrifice and ritual · ritual prayer for odysseus’ return · prayer and worship · portioning meat to guests · oath by zeus and gods · journey narrative · humility of a mortal sufferer · hermes and divine offerings · calypso’s captivity of odysseus · animal sacrifice
Usually: narrative (2) · injustice endured (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1) · reverence (1) · skepticism (1)
Ulysses rejects the idea he is an immortal, insists he is merely afflicted and hungry, accepts the escort plan, and tells Arete his long voyage from Calypso on Ogygia to Scheria.
stumble upon some one or other of them, they affect no concealment, for we are as near of kin to the gods as the Cyclopes and the savage giants are.”62 Then Ulysses said: “Pray, Alcinous, do not take any such notion into your head. I have nothing of the immortal about me, neither in body nor mind, and most resemble those among you who are the most afflicted. Indeed, were I to tell you all that heaven has seen fit to…
Eumaeus prepares a sacrificial meal for the guest, burns offerings to Hermes and the gods, gives Odysseus an honored portion of boar, and settles into supper and rest as Zeus rains all night.
the swine they shut up to sleep in their lairs, and a mighty din arose as the swine were being stalled. Then the goodly swineherd called to his fellows, saying: “Bring the best of the swine, that I may sacrifice it for a guest of mine from a far land: and we too will have good cheer therewith, for we have long suffered and toiled by reason of the white-tusked swine, while others devour the fruit of our labour withou…