Status Updates From The Odyssey

Book XXI sees Odysseus win the challenge Penelope has set with the bow and the axes, setting the stage for Book XXII where both Odysseus and Telemachus lay waste to the suitors with bloodthirsty thoroughness. A couple innocents get saved, the rest perish.

Then, the slave girls who slept with the suitors are compelled to clean up the mess before they get hanged by Telemachus for their treachery.

Here we go

Here we go

In book XIX, Telemachus and Odysseus have hidden the arms and set the stage for the archery contest Penelope will propose.