What is a good Book 14 summary of “The Odyssey” written by Homer?
Book 14 Upon approaching his hut, Odysseus finds Eumaeus who invites him inside for a meal of pork. Eumaeus recalls the glory days of his old master, who he worries is long dead and gone, and speaks ill about the suitors who have turned the once proud Palace into a horrid place. Odysseus pretends to predict the return of Eumaeus’s old master, but Eumaeus grows wary as many beggars have arrived trying to get a hot meal by offering news of Odysseus to Penelope. Eumaeus likes the beggar though and offers him a cloak and a place to sleep. Odysseus then relates the lie that he is from Crete and was at Odysseus’s side in Troy before returning home. However, a later trip to Egypt proved fatefully bad and he became the beggar that Eumaeus sees in front of him. He reveals that during the trip to Egypt he heard Odysseus was alive.
