tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Book xx.

Ulysses converses with Eumæus, and with his herdsman Philœtius--The suitors again maltreat him--Theoclymenus foretells their doom and leaves the house 83 Book xxi. The trial of the bow and of the axes 87 Book xxii. The killing of the suitors 90 Book xxiii. Penelope comes down to see Ulysses, and being at last convinced that he is her husband, retires with him to their own old room--In the morning Ulysses, Telemachus, Philœtius, and Eumæus go to the house of Laertes 96 Book xxiv. The Ghosts of the suitors in Hades--Ulysses sees his father--is attacked by the friends of the suitors --Laertes kills Eupeithes--Peace is made between him and the people of Ithaca 99   CHAPTER III. THE PREPONDERANCE OF WOMAN IN THE ODYSSEY 105 CHAPTER IV. JEALOUSY FOR THE HONOUR AND DIGNITY OF WOMAN—SEVERITY AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE DISGRACED THEIR SEX—LOVE OF SMALL RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES—OF PREACHING—OF WHITE LIES AND SMALL PLAY-ACTING—OF HAVING THINGS BOTH WAYS—AND OF MONEY 115 CHAPTER V. ON THE QUESTION WHETHER OR NO PENELOPE IS BEING WHITEWASHED 125 CHAPTER VI. FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTER OF PENELOPE—THE JOURNEY OF TELEMACHUS TO LACEDÆMON 134 CHAPTER VII. FURTHER INDICATIONS THAT THE WRITER IS A WOMAN—YOUNG —HEADSTRONG—AND UNMARRIED 142 CHAPTER VIII. THAT ITHACA AND SCHERIA ARE BOTH OF THEM DRAWN FROM TRAPANI AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD 158 CHAPTER IX. THE IONIAN AND THE ÆGADEAN ISLANDS—THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES SHOWN TO BE PRACTICALLY A SAIL ROUND SICILY FROM TRAPANI TO TRAPANI 171 CHAPTER X. FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES, TO CONFIRM THE VIEW THAT THEY WERE A SAIL ROUND SICILY, BEGINNING AND ENDING WITH MT. ERYX AND TRAPANI 188 CHAPTER XI. WHO WAS THE WRITER? 200 CHAPTER XII. THE DATE OF THE POEM, AND A COMPARISON OF THE STATE OF THE NORTH WESTERN PART OF SICILY AS REVEALED TO US IN THE ODYSSEY, WITH THE ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THUCYDIDES OF THE SAME TERRITORY IN THE EARLIEST KNOWN