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Often appears with: rules against feasting disruptions · mourning for lost husband · justice as a virtue · household management · festivals, games, and spectacle · custom and the manners of a people · bardic performance
Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1) · lament (1)
Penelope hears Phemius sing of Troy’s aftermath and mourns; Telemachus lets the bard continue, orders the suitors to stop brawling, and threatens formal action and divine reckoning.
ever about his father. He felt the change, wondered at it, and knew that the stranger had been a god, so he went straight to where the suitors were sitting. Phemius was still singing, and his hearers sat rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of the return from Troy, and the ills Minerva had laid upon the Achaeans. Penelope, daughter of Icarius, heard his song from her room upstairs, and came down by the great stai…