Read the following and do the exercises that follow: “I didn’t see anything and wasn’t told anything,”said the dear nurse Eurycleia,”but I heard the groans of dying men.We sat petrified in a corner of our quarter, with the doors shut tightly on us,till your son Telemachus shouted to me to come out. His father had sent him to fetch me.And then I found Odysseus standing among the bodies of the dead.They lay round him in heaps all over the hard floor.It would have gladdened your heart to see him,spattered with blood and gore like a lion.By now all the corpses have been gathered in a pile at the courtyard gate,while he has had a big fire made and is purifying the palace.He sent me to call you to him.So come with me now,so that you two may begin a time of happiness together after all your sufferings.The wish you cherished so long has today come true.Odysseus has come back to his own hearth alive;he has found both you and his son at home,and in his own palace he has had his revenge on every one of the Suitors who wronged him.” (trs. by Rieu,revised,Penguin Classics) Exercises: T(rue) or F(alse) 1.The Odyssey is an epic by Hesiod. 2.This paragraph is taken from the Iliad . 3.The speaker is talking to Penelope. 4.“Suitors” here refer to those men who have tried to win the love of Eurycleai’s mistress. 5.Homer wrote only two epics.