Book 21 of 24
Book 21: The bow
The Trial of the Axes, During Which Ulysses Reveals Himself to Eumaeus and Philoetius.
Penelope brings out Odysseus's bow and sets a test: whoever can string it and shoot through twelve axes will marry her. The suitors try and fail. Odysseus asks to try. Telemachus insists, and sends his mother away.
Odysseus strings the bow with ease and shoots through the axes. Telemachus stands by his side.