Epitome

Now Penelope delivered to the suitors the bow of Ulysses, which he had once received from Iphitus; and she said that she would marry him who bent the bow.[*](See Hom. Od. 21.1-82; Hyginus, Fab. 126.) When none of them could bend it, Ulysses took it and shot down the suitors, with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[*](See Hom. Od. 21.140-434, Hom. Od. 22.1-389; Hyginus, Fab. 126.) He killed also Melanthius, and the handmaids that bedded with the suitors,[*](See Hom. Od. 22.417-477.) and he made himself known to his wife and his father.[*](See Hom. Od. 22.153-297; Hom. Od. 24.205-348.)