... in book 23, Penelope tests the man she suspects to be Odysseus once and for all. Penelope remains wary, afraid that a god is playing a trick on her, so she orders Eurycleia to move her bridal bed. When Odysseus suddenly flares up at her saying that their bed is immovable, explaining it is built from the trunk of an olive tree around ... ...

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