A powerful scene in the Odyssey comes when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.You'd expect the story to end with a great celebration: with the hero coming home and the family reunited.Homer does something far stranger.Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to