Class Analyzation of Book 20: Portents Gather

Portents: signs or omens

• Eagle with dove
• Amphinomus realizes will never kill the prince, concentrate on feasting
• Odysseus killing the suitors
• thunder and curse from maid as an omen from Zeus to Odysseus
• asks for another sign bc impatient
• not fully trust Athena's plan
• blood and laughing
• bleeding
• crazy laughter
• meat bleeding
• crying, grief
• walls with blood
• ghosts 
• mist and no sunshine
• creepy
• seems like the crawling meat with the Cattle of the sun
• used in sacrifices
• change something loved into hated
• don't have choice
• unfair bc make suitors more hated
• enjoys toying with mortals
• cruel to suitors, amphinomus, and Odysseus
• seems like very involved in Odysseus' lives
• make Odysseus suffer
• throw ox hoof at Odysseus
• selfish, needs something to do
• make sure that does not have his doubts

• had worried about people getting revenge after killing all the suitors
• can guard you since i am a goddess
• even if many, you could drive them away
• feel like shouldn't have to fight the suitors
• sort of vague, would continue the cycle of violence
• Melanthius returns
• makes fun of Odysseus
• Odysseus thinks about murdering Melanthius