The shadowed cloister of Ulysses' palace, lit by Minerva's golden lamp and the dying embers of the braziers.
Identity, Deception, Memory, and the Gates of Horn and Ivory.
"As soon as Euryclea had got the scarred limb in her hands and had well hold of it, she recognized it and dropped the foot at once..."
Touch the limb to search for the mark...
THE TRUTH REVEALED:
The scar, won from a wild boar on Mount Parnassus in his youth, becomes the ultimate token of identity. Despite the rags and the twenty years, the body remembers what the eyes might miss.
Penelope tests the stranger, asking for details of Ulysses' clothing. He describes the purple wool mantle and the gold brooch showing a dog and a fawn.
Penelope dreams of twenty geese killed by a great eagle. The eagle returns and speaks with a human voice: "The geese are the suitors, and I am... your own husband."
Fatuous and deceptive dreams that do not come true.
Dreams that carry truth and portend real events.