Love story of Odysseus & penelope:

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Today, I just summarize a story. I read this story in the book of name 'Iliad' which was written by 'Homer'.

Homer is famous for his two epic -

'lliad and Odyssey'. Homer was blind. But he could match stanza of poem very easily. His father was also a poet. By the reason he also developed himself in speaking poem. Oh, as he was blind, so he cannot write up his poem. His daughter helped him to write all these. (There are many doubt about it). Ok, whatever I just write up a part of Iliad. And it is last part name is - Odysseus & Penelope.

First part:

short description of Odysseus and Penelope Odysseus was a king as well as a brave soldier, a genius person. And he is the symbol of the most beloved character in all of Greek history. He is remembered first and foremost as a father and husband because the Odyssey is his struggle to return to the home and family he was forced to leave behind.

Odysseus is called to fight in a war that lasts 10 years, and then takes another 10 years on top of that to get home, making it 20 years round-trip. All that time, his beloved wife Penel waits for her husband's return - a return which never seems to come for those 2 very long decades. When Odysseus was a young king (in the land of Greece), he was called to a council of all the Greek kings and leaders. Their mission was to find the right match for the gorgeous and very eligible princess Helen. She was a beauty unparalleled in her day and quite rich with powerful political connections, so all the men of the land were crawling over one another to marry her.

Helen, who was very beautiful as well as gentle, lived in Greek. So, Odysseus made a pact with the Greek Kings - "We must all agree to defend the man who marries Helen, that way we may all avoid a civil war. I personally have no wish to marry Helen, so I will be the first to make the oath to protect he who marries her. "Odysseus was no one to trifle with, as they all knew, so the Greeks assented. Menelaus drew the lot and married Helen. And after that Odysseus got Penelope. Everyone went home happy (or not), and that was that.

A couple of years later, Odysseus and Penelope are happily married and have a newborn son. Everything is great! That is ok, but tragic moment start from here-

Though Helen was a wife of Menelaus, Parish was another prince, forced Helen to stay with him.And for this reason, the war of Troy was started and a lot of people joined this war.It was a bloody war and a lot of people, animals, and things destroyed.Ok whatever, after finishing the war and won the shoulders of Greeks returned their home via water route. All could reach properly without Odysseus.

More years pass - still no sign of Odysseus. Penelope looks everyday to the shores, but he never comes. Eventually, everyone assumes he is dead. But Penelope and her son never believe that he was no more. They know he's alive, somewhere, and so they continue to wait. Penelope will not give up on her love.

Many others are not so patient. They always said that, Turns out that when your husband doesn't come home after a war has been finished, you are suddenly shot back onto the eligible bachelor list. Every male within a 50 mile radius and above the age of 12 shows up at the palace and begins to petition for Penelope's hand. As Penelope was so beautiful as well as intelligence, so many bachelors visited her home to marry her. She postponed their thinking for a long time. Every day she made a cloth of wool and in night she opened it. And gradually a long time passed but her work was not completed. It was a condition that without completing woolen cloth, she never met anyone. But at last they could understand the tricks of Penelope. So, finally she agreed to meet with them and wanted to select one. Fine, I will marry one of you ”she announces one day. "But I want to make sure I marry the man that is worthy. So I have devised a test to determine who shall be my husband."

The test is deceptively simple -

1. String Odysseus' great long bow by hand.

2. Fire an arrow through the holes of 12 axes.

Whoever could do this the most easily would marry her. He men laugh at the contest, each of them thinking themselves more than up to the challenge.But not a single one of them can even string the bow!

It is great time as Odysseus returned to his home but no one know about it-

Meanwhile, Odysseus watches the pitiful contest in his hall. He had finally made it back, and in secret. But with 20 years and a household of suitors between him and his wife, Odysseus doesn't know for sure if he can trust Penelope or not. Other Greek kings returned from the war to be murdered by their wives. A lot could change in 20 years. Had she?

So he disguises himself as a decrepit old man in order to assess the situation at his home. It doesn't look promising. No one except a faithful servant and his son (now a strapping young man) knows that he is even alive, let alone on the island. And before he will reunite with his wife, he will rid himself of these dastardly suitors.

Finally he has enough of the suitors' really lame attempts at the challenge, and he steps forward to try his hand. The suitors laugh at the old man they see before them, but they quickly choke on their laughter when Odysseus easily strings the bow and fires the shot perfectly. In a flash, his disguise is lifted and he is transformed before their eyes into his awesome manly glory. To their horror, they recognize their king Odysseus who is now armed and very angry. With a signal, Odysseus and his men dispatch the suitors. All are dead within a couple of minutes.

Penelope heard the ruckus in the great hall when Odysseus took out all the suitors. She knows something is coming - something big - so she waits in the chamber next to her bedroom. And then Odysseus walks in.

She sees him, but reacts hardly. The gods have played tricks on her before, and she is a canny woman. She has no idea if the man standing before her is a vision or another man in disguise. He certainly looks real.

Odysseus of course is a little put off by the lack of response. "Strange woman .... What other wife could have a spirit so unbending? Holding back from her husband, home at last for her after bearing twenty years of brutal struggle."

Penelope replied to him that as a lot of people stayed here to marry him so she was so much worried about him. If he was the wrong one, so how can she did this mistake. A long time, she and her son believed that Odysseus came back and today it is true.

Now from his breast into his eyes

the ache of longing mounted,

and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sun warmed earth

longed for as the sun warmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows,

gale winds and tons of sea..

she too rejoiced,

her gaze upon her husband,

her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

"Whole night, they woke up and talked one another. Penelope described her tragedy and sufferings to stay at kingdom and Odysseus descried his horrible journey of last 20 years. After a long time, 20 years, they met each other and their happiness no bound. And for Penelope and Odysseus true love, their beloved history is everlasting and famous in not only Greek but also all over the world.

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