Book 18 of 24
Book 18: The fight with Irus
The Fight with Irus—Ulysses Warns Amphinomus—Penelope Gets Presents from the Suitors—the Braziers—Ulysses Rebukes Eurymachus.
The town beggar Irus challenges Odysseus. Odysseus knocks him down. Penelope appears and receives gifts from the suitors. Eurymachus insults the beggar and Odysseus answers him.
Odysseus warns the suitor Amphinomus, who is the most decent of them, that he should leave.