| The Suitors' plot to kill your son |
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| Yes, after you ask Phemius to choose another song, as the one about the Greeks' sufferings on their way home from Troy is really upsetting you, he tells you to mind your own business and go to your quarters, and get on with your weaving! You are mightily surprised, but secretly pleased that your son is showing signs of real masculine behaviour at last! You obey him without question, and go to weep on your bed. But in the morning Telemachus has gone - you are heartbroken, partly because he never even said goodbye, partly because you are worried sick about what might happen to him. When you hear that the Suitors are hatching a plot to ambush him on his way home you begin to panic. Who tells you about their dastardly plans? Is it ... |