Odysseus concealed his weeping from Penelope through practiced self-control
Evidence
Odysseus’ heart went out to his grief-stricken wife but under his lids his eyes remained stock-still — they might have been horn or iron — his guile fought back his tears. — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 3844
Categorization
- XREF: This bodily self-mastery parallels the theme of silence/self-restraint present in the reader’s noise-and-silence sources. — connects to: Penelope shares Odysseus’ cunning and deploys mêtis as a counteroffensive, not a surrender — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 274