The Odyssey Questions Book 24: Describe the interaction of the suitors’ shades with others in Hades
Book 24
- Describe the interaction of the suitors’ shades with others in Hades. How do Agamemnon and Achilles view each other’s fates?
- How does Odysseus test his father Laertes, now living a hard life, after the slaughter has been accomplished? What’s the point of testing his father?
- What problem remains for Odysseus to deal with, even though he has rid himself of the suitors and their hangers-on? What reason do the suitors’ surviving kin give for their attempt to kill Odysseus? Is it grief alone, or something different?
- How does the reconciliation between Odysseus and the surviving kin occur? Without Athena’s divine assistance, what would be the prospects for immediate or eventual reconciliation?
