Ulysses of Ithaca
Karl Friedrich Becker and Homer
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1. Front matter2. Translator’s Preface3. Illustrations4. Chapter I Penelope waiting for Ulysses—The Suitors—Telemachus, encouraged by Athene, sets sail5. Chapter II Telemachus visits Nestor and Menelaus—The Suitors prepare an Ambush6. Chapter III Calypso allows Ulysses to go home—Poseidon sends a storm—Ulysses is wrecked upon the Island of Scheria7. Chapter IV Nausicaa8. Chapter V Ulysses visits the King of the Phæacians9. Chapter VI Ulysses among the Phæacians10. Chapter VII Ulysses tells his Story—The Lotus-Eaters, Polyphemus, Circe, Scylla, and Charybdis—The Visit to Hades11. Chapter VIII Ulysses is taken sleeping to Ithaca by the Phæacians—Athene counsels him—He comes to Eumæus12. Chapter IX Telemachus leaves Sparta and lands in Ithaca13. Chapter X Arrival of Telemachus—Ulysses reveals himself to his Son14. Chapter XI Ulysses and the Goatherd—the Dog Argos—Ulysses in the Hall among the Suitors15. Chapter XII Ulysses and Irus, the Beggar16. Chapter XIII Ulysses and Penelope17. Chapter XIV Penelope arranges the Decisive Contest18. Chapter XV Ulysses’ Revenge19. Chapter XVI Ulysses reveals himself to Penelope20. Chapter XVII Ulysses goes to Laertes—His Father’s Conflict with the Friends of the slain Suitors—Great Sacrifice and Festival in Ithaca21. Transcriber’s Notes