Chapter Page I Penelope waiting for Ulysses—The Suitors—Telemachus, encouraged by Athene, sets sail 11 II Telemachus visits Nestor and Menelaus—The Suitors prepare an Ambush 21 III Calypso allows Ulysses to go home—Poseidon sends a storm—Ulysses is wrecked upon the Island of Scheria 37 IV Nausicaa 43 V Ulysses visits the King of the Phæacians 49 VI Ulysses among the Phæacians 55 VII Ulysses tells his Story—The Lotus-Eaters, Polyphemus, Circe, Scylla, and Charybdis—The Visit to Hades 64 VIII Ulysses is taken sleeping to Ithaca by the Phæacians—Athene Counsels him—He comes to Eumæus 96 IX Telemachus leaves Sparta and lands in Ithaca 108 X Arrival of Telemachus—Ulysses reveals himself to his Son 113 XI Ulysses and the Goatherd—The Dog Argos—Ulysses in the Hall among the Suitors 117 XII Ulysses and Irus, the Beggar 124 XIII Ulysses and Penelope 130 XIV Penelope arranges the Decisive Contest 136 XV Ulysses’ Revenge 147 XVI Ulysses reveals himself to Penelope 152 XVII Ulysses goes to Laertes—His Father’s Conflict with the Friends of the slain Suitors—Great Sacrifice and Festival in Ithaca 158 Illustrations Mercury Descending to Earth _Frontispiece_ The Blinding of Polyphemus 72 Invocation of the Shades in Hades 86 Ulysses Reveals himself to Penelope 156 Ulysses of Ithaca Chapter I Penelope waiting for Ulysses—The Suitors—Telemachus, encouraged by Athene, sets sail