Ψ- Olive wood chamber

However, Eurykleia supported with such zeal the reality of what she said, that Penelope felt a spark of hope rekindle within her. She gripped Eurykleia's hands tightly, trying to believe what she was telling her.

Disturbed, Penelope listened to Eurycleia recount how Odysseus disguised as a beggar appeared and revealed himself to her, and how he carried out his plan to exterminate the suitors.

The queen of Ithaca descended the stairs of the palace and met Telemachus. And in this case he found it hard to believe that he too fought and killed many suitors along with his father. Her son then urged her to go and embrace her husband who returned home and was waiting for her.

Telemachus then set up a celebration and dance following his father's orders, so as not to reveal to the passers-by that inside the palace many sons from the aristocratic families of Ithaca had been killed. Thus many concluded that Penelope ultimately chose to marry one of the suitors.

When Odysseus faced Penelope, she could not recognize her husband after so many years of wars and suffering. Additional proof was needed. Signs and events that only the two of them knew and the man in front of her should have known.

Penelope wondered aloud how she could trust a stranger to enter the chamber with the bed Odysseus had made before he left for Ithaca. Odysseus then replied that indeed he had made their bed from the wood of an olive tree that had grown in their yard, fastened it with ox hide and filled it elaborately with gold and malam.

This was the proof Penelope was looking for. The man in front of her was actually Odysseus, the master of the house who had returned. They hugged and kissed many times, still unable to believe that Odysseus' absence was over. They stayed thus embraced and loved for hours in their chamber, with Odysseus recounting all his adventures and anxieties until he returned to Ithaca, but now he had reached their home, near her and they could live happily for the rest of their years .