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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Odyssey - an Alternate Ending', 1.
Extract

Everything is the same until the stringing of the bow except Telemachus doesn?t know about Odysseus
Odysseus, who currently looks like an old man, tries to string the bow, but fails. The leader of the suitors, Antimous strings the bow and shoots through the twelve axis. Odysseus pleads with Antimous to have another go. He accepts as Odysseus is an old man and he surely couldn?t do it. Odysseus attempts and gets it through all twelve axis. Queen Penelope comes down and now has to choose. Odysseus says ?I am Odysseus? but she doesn?t believe him. …

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