Odysseus returns to Ithaca

- Odysseus returns to Ithaca after 20 years, despite having numerous dangerous encounters during his voyage, such as facing the Cyclops and the Sirens.
- Penelope's dreams foretold that Odysseus had
gone through near-death experiences, so she
doubted that Odysseus was going to live.
- Penelope's worries are gone since he came back.
"I shed a satisfactory number of tears, and embraced
him, and claimed he'd passed the bedpost test, and that
I was now convinced."