>Many readers breeze past a moment in Homer’s Odyssey while skipping their way to the battle.>Odysseus returns to Ithaca in disguise. The suitors are still in his house, selfishly consuming everything that is his and that he built, insulting his wife and assuming his son is too weak to stop them. Suddenly the bow is strung and the moment arrives. Arrows fly and the suitors fall one by one in the very hall they failed to claim.

Originally published in Catholic Manhood. Read original article