THE GREEK HEROES 141 except his son Telemaclius who he is ; but his old dog and his nurse Euryclea recognize him in spite of his metamorphosis, while he is staying in his own house as a beggar. Penelope has just announced that she will marry the one who can stretch the bow of her deceased husband and 'shoot an arrow through the openings of twelve axes placed in a row one behind another. All the suitors attempt in vain to bend the bow ; but Odysseus easily accomplishes the feat. Being changed back to his proper form, he makes himself known, and with the assistance of his son and two faithful shepherds, Eumaeus and Phi- loetius, in a savage conflict, he puts all the suitors to the sword. Then for the first time Penelope learns of her husband's return. Finally Odysseus seeks out his old father Laertes, who is cultivating a farm in the vicinity. Chryseis : Homer, II. i. passim; Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 402 ; Hy- ginus, Fab. cxxi. Achilles: Homer, II. i., et passim; Ovid, Amor. i. 9, 33, Rem. Amor. 777, Trist. iii. 5, 37 ; Hygirius, Fab. xcvi. ; Shak., Love's Labour's Lost v. 2, 635, Troilus and Cressida passim. Briseis : Homer, II. i., et passim ; Ovid, Rem. Amor. 777, 783, Her. iii.; Hyginus, Fab. cvi. Pandarus : Homer, II. ii., et passim; Vergil, Aen. v. 496 ; Shak., Troilus and Cressida passim. Diomedes: Homer, II. ii., et passim; Ovid, Met. xiii. 100 sq.; Shak., Troilus and Cressida passim. Ajax (son of Telamon) : Homer, II. ii., et passim; Sophocles, Ajax ; Horace, Od. ii. 4, 5 ; Ovid, Met. xiii. 2 : Clipei dominus septemplicis Aiax. Hyginus, Fab. cvii., cxiv. ; Shak., King Henry VI. pt. ii. v. 1, 26, Troilus and Cressida passim. Nestor: Homer, II. i., et passim, Od. iii. passim; Ovid, Met. xiii. 63 ; Shak., Rape of Lucrece 203 : Nestor's golden words; King Henry VI. pt. iii. iii. 2, 188, Troilus and Cressida passim.
