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Writer and host of @patternstellstories.com podcast with @libertybirb.bsky.social. 🛸 Podcast: linktr.ee/patternstellstories Substack: www.tinyklaus.com Website: patternstellstories.com
![In the Odyssey, Odysseus begins his return to Ithaca after ten years of fighting in the Trojan War. His attempts to reach his home last another ten years, during which his family and friends believe him to be dead and various suitors attempt to marry his wife Penelope. ! Upon his return, Odysseus is disguised as an elderly beggar by Athena and reveals his true identity to his son, Telemachus. Together, they agree that Penelope's suitors must be killed. 8) Odysseus travels with his swineherd slave Eumaeus, to whom he has not revealed his identity, towards Odysseus's palace.!9! As they are traveling, Argos awakes to the sound of Odysseus's voice. It is revealed that Odysseus had raised him as a hunting dog and, before Odysseus had left for the war, Argos was used to hunt deer, wild goats, and hares by other young men, but had never hunted with Odysseus.
After Odysseus left for Troy, Argos was neglected and, as Odysseus walks by, is lying in deep piles of manure and riddled with ticks. o][a) Once Argos recognizes Odysseus, he drops his ears and begins to wag his tail, but his condition leaves him unable to get up and greet Odysseus; Odysseus begins to cry, wiping a tear from his eyes. 14] He asks Eumaeus about the dog, commenting on his beautiful form, and wonders if he was once as great as his form suggests. (15) Eumaeus replies that Argos belonged to Odysseus and was once a great hunting dog who caught everything he tracked.
He recounts that after Odysseus had been presumed dead, no one took care of Argos, and Eumaeus curses the servants for their negligence. 6] As the two men enter the palace, where the suitors are, Argos dies. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iuvi4rbic3cdkefbiguwgkey/bafkreicjnhcbjgtxwgpzqagcfagcmwheu76euuf3wgupwwgg6zaz65ty5i)
