Test of the Bow

(Woodeene)

I am finally on Ithaca! I met my son Telemachus after twenty years, and now my wife Penelope will meet me. For many years, there have been suitors in our house, eating my food and drinking my wine. They will pay for what they have done to distress my wife and steal my place in the house. Penelope says that she is going to test the suitors to string my bow and shoot it through a few rings. I will achieve this task and eliminate the suitors, fighting alongside Telemachus. I will then triumph and finally be with Penelope for the rest of my life.