Facts and Trivia about Cats and Dogs

OhNoRhino on July 13rd, 2017 at 16:21 UTC »

You left out the saddest part:

He couldn't acknowledge his dog as it would reveal his identity

satanicpuppy on July 13rd, 2017 at 15:34 UTC »

Well, he was in disguise. That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about Odysseus: arriving home after being gone for 20 years, and his first thought was to put on a disguise and scope the place out.

He scopes the place out, talks to his son, talks to some of his old loyalists, then murders the fuck out of all the dudes bothering his wife.

RunDNA on July 13rd, 2017 at 15:26 UTC »

The only one? His servant Eurycleia also recognized him by a scar on his leg.

From Book Nineteen:

Then he kept still, while the old nurse filled up Her basin glittering in firelight; she poured Cold water in, then hot.

But Lord Odysseus Whirled suddenly from the fire to face the dark. The scar: he had forgotten that. She must not Handle his scarred thigh, or the game was up. But when she bared her lord’s leg, bending near, She knew the groove at once.

An old wound A boar’s white tusk inflicted, on Parnassos Years ago.

[...]

This was the scar the old nurse recognized; She traced it under her spread hands, then let go, And into the basin fell the lower leg Making the bronze clang, sloshing the water out. Then joy and anguish seized her heart; her eyes Filled up with tears; her throat closed, and she whispered, With hand held out to touch his chin:

"Oh yes! You are Odysseus! Ah, dear child! I could not See you until now -- not till I knew My master’s very body with my hands!"