Now stripping back his rags Odysseus master of craft and battle
vaulted onto the great threshold, gripping his bow and quiver
bristling arrows, and poured his flashing shafts before him,
loose at his feet, and thundered out to all the suitors:
"Look – your crucial test is finished, now, at last!
But another target’s left that no one’s hit before –
we’ll see if I can hit it – Apollo give me glory!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 22, lines 1-7. Odysseus reveals himself to the suitors and begins his revenge in these opening opening lines of Book 22. Seizing his great bow and quiver of arrows, he prays to archery god Apollo to give him glory in his battle.