The Odyssey - Book 20 - The Last Dinner

• Odysseus and Penelope

• Each sleeps thinking of the other.

• Odysseus holds his anger in check as the suitors and maids run around for one last romp

• Odysseus asks for a sign or omen from Zeus (112-113). The sign comes as a thunder crack in a clear sky, interpreted by a woman who was grinding grain (125-133).

• The suitors lose their minds.

• In the final 139 lines of this book, something peculiar happens to the suitors. They become mad but don't realize that they are mad.