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	PlanetPapers - The Odyssey - Women
		Eurycleia is very kind and thoughtful and she is very quick to agree to wash the stranger’s feet.
		Eurycleia is also very civil with the suitors even thought she really hates them being in the house, but Melantho is quite “cozy” with the suitors and is on their side when it comes to them marrying Penelopeia.
		Eurycleia had raised Odysseus since he was a child and she taught him what was wrong and what was right.
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	Harvey
		Not only that, but as the other servants were condescending towards "the begger" and Eurycleia was, indeed, the nurse who raised him, the King felt it was only appropriate for her to be the one to wash his feet.
		Odysseus lets Eurycleia know also because she is as close to his mother as any living mortal women and knows that she is concerned for Odysseus' safety equal to or greater to the amount of Pennelope's worries.
		Odysseus trusts Eurycleia because she had shown him the proper xenia, and he had known her eversince he was young.
	harvey.harker.org /harker/comment.cgi?newsid=1471 (1366 words)

	Homer Introduction to Homer The Odyssey Books 1
		Eurycleia, who is present, tells her about Telemachus' trip and advises her to pray to Athena for his safety.
		Eurycleia happily climbs the stairs to tell her mistress that her husband is home.
		Eurycleia says that she does not know how he killed them, and again asks her to come and see for herself.
	www.columbia.edu /~kdc2101/ebz5/lithum/asemester/Odyssey.html (22962 words)

	Part II. Chapter XII. Padraic Colum 1918. The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
		Thereupon the nurse, old Eurycleia, fetched water, both hot and cold, and brought the bath to the hearth.
		As she did so, Odysseus turned his face away to the darkness, for it suddenly came into his mind that his nurse, old Eurycleia, might recognize the scar that was upon that foot.
		Odysseus put his hand on Eurycleia’s mouth, and with the other hand he drew her to him.
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	SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Books 23–24
		Eurycleia goes upstairs to call Penelope, who has slept through the entire fight.
		Penelope doesn’t believe anything that Eurycleia says, and she remains in disbelief even when she comes downstairs and sees her husband with her own eyes.
		She orders Eurycleia to move her bridal bed, and Odysseus suddenly flares up at her that their bed is immovable, explaining how it is built from the trunk of an olive tree around which the house had been constructed.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/odyssey/section12.rhtml (1147 words)

	The Odyssey - Book Two - Detailed Version
		Seeking out his aged nursemaid, Eurycleia, Telemachus instructs her to prepare barley meal and wine for the crew of his ship.
		Brought almost to tears by his own indignation, he throws this to the ground after he has chastised the people for not coming to the aid of their king's family.
		Eurycleia (yoo-rih-KLY-uh) This faithful slave, purchased by Odysseus' father for twenty oxen, was treated as a member of the family.
	www.mythweb.com /odyssey/book02.html (443 words)

	SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Books 19–20
		Telemachus tells Eurycleia that they are storing the arms to keep them from being damaged.
		As she is putting them in a basin of water, she notices a scar on one of his feet.
		Before she retires, Penelope describes to Odysseus a dream that she has had in which an eagle swoops down upon her twenty pet geese and kills them all; it then perches on her roof and, in a human voice, says that he is her husband who has just put her lovers to death.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/odyssey/section10.rhtml (1375 words)

	The Odyssey
		It is also concealed within the event of the recognition scene that the text describes to stress the importance of disguise and timing.
		Penelope is present right before and right after this scene but not during because the goddess Athena has dazed her with her powers.
		The scene that is yet to come is the boar’s facing his pursuers and not being a victim in the hands of his pursuers.
	members.core.com /32/98/js/modpaper/hodyssey.htm (1851 words)

	Homer: The Odyssey Book XIX
		Eurycleia, the nurse, saying: ‘Nurse, I want the women shut in their rooms, while I store my father’s weapons away, fine weapons that have lain around the hall, neglected and darkening with the smoke, ever since he left in my childhood.
		Eurycleia, kneel here and wash the feet of a man of your master’s age.
		Eurycleia placed the baby on his knees as he was finishing supper, and said to him: ‘Autolycus, you must give a name to your grandchild: he has been long desired and prayed for.’
	www.tonykline.co.uk /PITBR/Greek/Odyssey19.htm (5150 words)

	Poseidon's Greek Mythology Page - The Odyssey
		The queen is very moved and tells the maid Eurycleia to wash his feet.
		Eurycleia reveals all twelve of the traitorous maidservants; they are forced to clean out the dead, while Melanthius is mutilated to death.
		Eurycleia tells Penelope that Odysseus is the one that has rid her house of the useless suitors.
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	JTK's Study Guide for Odyssey 13-24
		Eurycleia, meanwhile, locks the doors of the megaron -- that is, she locks all the suitors IN, with Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and Philoetius (who himself has locked the gates of the courtyard outside).
		Eurycleia now brings the rest of the women to the megaron.
		Eurycleia wakes Penelope with the straightforward news that Odysseus has returned and killed the suitors.
	omni.cc.purdue.edu /~corax/odyssey.studyguide.13-24.html (4115 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: Creolizing Homer for the stage: Walcott's The Odyssey - Derek Walcott - The Odyssey: A ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Eurycleia's African-Caribbean vernacular echoes the typical nurse-mammy while both she and Ma Kilman hark back to African tribal lore for wisdom and healing ("You Can Build" 72).
		Walcott's Eurycleia serves the same functions as Homer's, but Walcott makes of her birthplace in Egypt (9) an essential African component of his revision.
		Her influence on Telemachus is explicit in the scene where she expresses doubts about his having received assurance from a swallow that his father is alive and will be returning.
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	Odyssey / The Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Eurycleia, Odysseus' nurse, is the one told to wash his feet.
		When Eurycleia started washing his feet, she felt the scar, realizing that the stranger is Odysseus.
		Penelope is wakened by her servant, Eurycleia, and told of Odysseus' return.
	www.mun.ca /english/firstyear/odplot.html (8753 words)

	FREE MonkeyNotes Study Guide-The Odyssey by Homer-Free BookNotes Chapter Summary Online Synopsis Essay Topics Study ...
		Eurycleia is asked to shut the women in the chambers while this task is being completed.
		Eurycleia is assigned the task of washing his feet, and she recognizes the scar of an old wound, which he had received while hunting boar as a young man with his grandfather Autolycus.
		Eurycleia is about to tell Penelope that the beggar is really Odysseus, but he stops her with the threat of death.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOdyssey29.asp (1105 words)

	Eurycleia, servant of Penelope
		Eurycleia was the nurse both of Odysseus and his son Telemachus.
		She was the daughter of Ops, son of Peisenor, and Laertes bought her on a time with his wealth, while as yet she was in her first youth, and gave for her the worth of twenty oxen.
		Answer: Eurycleia was not a better mother but she helped a lot.
	www.fjkluth.com /eurycleia.html (866 words)

	TAD WILLIAMS \| Mountain of Black Glass - Foreword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Oddly, she did not embrace him, did not even call back the slave-woman Eurycleia to bring wine or food for her long-lost husband, but Paul was not disappointed: he was far more interested in answers to his many questions.
		Her dark shawl and darker hair, the few strands of gray invisible in the starlight, surrounded the pale, mistrustful face with a mantle of shadow.
		He tripped on the huddled form of Eurycleia, but did not stop to find out if she was alive or dead.
	www.tadwilliams.com /excerpt3.html (7438 words)

	SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Character List
		Even though he does not know that the vagabond who appears at his hut is Odysseus, Eumaeus gives the man food and shelter.
		Eurycleia - The aged and loyal servant who nursed Odysseus and Telemachus when they were babies.
		Eurycleia is well informed about palace intrigues and serves as confidante to her masters.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/odyssey/characters.html (1078 words)

	Part II. Chapter XII. Padraic Colum 1918. The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She took him in her arms in the very hour he was born.
		His feet were in the water, and she put her hand upon one of them.
		And now, as Eurycleia, his old nurse, passed her hands along the leg, she let his foot drop suddenly.
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	BookReportOdyssey
		That mark gave him away to Eurycleia, his old nurse who took care of him as a boy.
		From Homer’s point of view, it may have seemed necessary that Odysseus have some confederates within the house to help him, and so he arranges for her to find out accidentally (for Odysseus’ initial plan is to reveal himself only to his son).
		Odysseus’ scar gives him away to Eurycleia, his knowledge of the physical details of his bed give him away to Penelope, and the dog’s non-verbal recognition of his master (some quality that dogs get, but humans don’t) allow Argus to see through the disguise to his master.
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	Part II. Chapter X. Padraic Colum 1918. The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
		When he went into the house, the first person he saw was his nurse, old Eurycleia, who welcomed him with joy.
		To Eurycleia he spoke of the guest who had come on his ship, Theoclymenus.
		He told her that this guest would be in the house that day, and that he was to be treated with all honour and reverence.
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	The Odyssey - Book Nineteen - Detailed Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Penelope takes kindly to the stranger and orders her maid Eurycleia to bathe his feet and anoint them with oil.
		Eurycleia, who was Odysseus' nurse when he was a child, notices a scar above the hero's knee.
		Odysseus had been gored by a wild boar while hunting on Mount Parnassus as a young man. The maid recognizes her master at once, and her hand goes out to his chin.
	www.mythweb.com /odyssey/book19.html (209 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Odyssey:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Now that the battle has ended and the house has been cleaned, good nurse Eurycleia scurries up to Penelope’s quarters to tell her all that has happened.
		As much as Penelope would like to believe that her husband has returned and vanquished the suitors, she is cautious and goes to the great hall to see for herself.
		As he listens, she asks Eurycleia to move the bedstead out of the couple’s chamber and spread it with blankets.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-99,pageNum-64.html (247 words)

	Part II. Chapter XVI. Padraic Colum 1918. The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Still Eurycleia kept on saying, ‘In very deed Odysseus is here.
		Then hearing Eurycleia say these words, Penelope sprang out of bed and put her arms round the nurse’s neck.
		‘I did not see the slaying,’ Eurycleia said, ‘but I heard the groaning of the men as they were slain.
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	Homer - The Odyssey - Page 78
		After slaying the suitors, Odysseus calls on his old nurse Eurycleia to tell him which of the maid-servants have acted shamefully.
		Even so he spake, and wingless her speech remained, and she opened the doors of the fair-lying halls, and came forth, and Telemachus led the way before her.
		So Odysseus called to the good nurse Eurycleia: 'Bring sulphur, old nurse, that cleanses all pollution and bring me fire, that I may purify the house with sulphur, and do thou bid Penelope come here with her handmaidens, and tell all the women to hasten into the hall.'
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu02/odyssey_page_78.htm (989 words)

	Carl Staab
		Although he does make some mistakes (such as letting himself be bathed by Eurycleia), he doesn’t let temporary emotions get in the way of what he knows he has to do.
		This would indicate that when Eurycleia uncovered the boar-hunt scar, Penelope looked away, bemused, because she knew what Eurycleia would find there.
		Odysseus told her that he was home, and she responded in kind, by "misspeaking" that he is Eurycleia’s master, and by telling him about a dream that she probably made up on the spot.
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	Skylar Osterman
		Penelopeia was clever and loyal and waited for her husband but was also the cause of chaos in his house; Eurycleia cared for Odysseus and his family like they were her own; and Athena guided Odysseus and Telemachos through all of their trials.
		When Telemachos informed Eurycleia of his departure she became extremely distressed and tried to stop him.
		Penelopeia, Eurycleia and Athena were all important to Odysseus and his adventures.
	www.beaconschool.org /~sosterma/TheOdyssey.htm (629 words)

	Virtual Odyssey: Books XVIII-XIX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After they are finished conversing, Penelope has Eurycleia, an old nurse of Odysseus, to clean the tired and worn feet of the beggar.
		As Eurycleia washes him, she notices an old scar on this leg and realizes that he is Odysseus.
		She is about to tell the queen when Odysseus sternly admonishes her to keep his identity for the time being.
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	Chapter Summarys
		Odysseus tells Penelope that he is a friend of her husband, and her husband is alive.
		Eurycleia recognizes a scar on him, and realizes he is Odysseus.
		Eurycleia fetches the disloyal servants, who are forced to clean up the bodies and then killed.
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	THE CHRONICLES BOOKLOG: Find out what the Chronicles editors are reading, and purchase recommended books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Theoclymenus, the noble prophet whom Telemachus befriends, has been forced into exile, and there are hints that Odysseus’s loyal servant, Eurycleia, comes of noble stock—she has a pedigree after all, which is the mark of an aristocrat.
		In a brilliant scene, Homer brings husband and wife together, and Odysseus claims to have seen her husband, who is returning home.
		Touched, Penelope arranges for him to be bathed by Eurycleia, who recognizes an old scar and almost gives him away.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /cgi-bin/booklog.cgi/The%20Classics/2004/06/01 (2660 words)

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