Editing Odyssey (section)

=== Homecoming ===
[[File:Homerus - Odissea, 1794 - 3939651 F.jpg|thumb|1794 student edition of the ''Odyssey'' including the ''[[Batrachomyomachia]]'']]

Homecoming (Ancient Greek: ''νόστος, nostos'') is a central theme of the ''Odyssey''.{{sfn|Bonifazi|2009|pp=481, 492}} Anna Bonafazi of the [[University of Cologne]] writes that, in Homer, ''[[nostos]]'' is "return home from Troy, by sea".{{sfn|Bonifazi|2009|p=481}} Agatha Thornton examines ''nostos'' in the context of characters other than Odysseus, in order to provide an alternative for what might happen after the end of the ''Odyssey''.{{sfn|Thornton|1970|pp=1–15}} For instance, one example is that of Agamemnon's homecoming versus Odysseus'. Upon Agamemnon's return, his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, kill Agamemnon. Agamemnon's son, [[Orestes]], out of vengeance for his father's death, kills Aegisthus. This parallel compares the death of the suitors to the death of Aegisthus and sets Orestes up as an example for Telemachus.{{sfn|Thornton|1970|pp=1–15}} Also, because Odysseus knows about Clytemnestra's betrayal, Odysseus returns home in disguise in order to test the loyalty of his own wife, Penelope.{{sfn|Thornton|1970|pp=1–15}} Later, Agamemnon praises Penelope for not killing Odysseus. It is because of Penelope that Odysseus has fame and a successful homecoming. This successful homecoming is unlike [[Achilles]], who has fame but is dead, and Agamemnon, who had an unsuccessful homecoming resulting in his death.{{sfn|Thornton|1970|pp=1–15}}