Book 21
The bow contest sets up the climactic slaughter and proves Odysseus's identity through physical mastery.
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From The Odyssey by Homer
Penelope sets the contest of stringing Odysseus's great bow and shooting through twelve axe-heads; only the disguised Odysseus can do it.
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