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In Book 19, why do you think Odysseus is so harsh on Eurycleia after she recognized him?


Eurycleia is Odysseus's old maid or caregiver. She knew him from his the beginning of his life. In book 19 I too had the question of why Odysseus was so harsh on her.  I believed that he was harsh on her because Penelope was in the room when the maid was washing Odysseus.  Odysseus didn’t want Penelope to figure out that he was himself rather than a swineherd. I don’t understand why he took her by the throat when she has been nothing but kind to him. Odysseus didn’t know that Penelope was shielded from knowing who he was by the gods, which might have been the cause of his abruption towards Eurycleia.

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