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[356] εἰς οἶκον. The word, as addressed here to Penelope, does not mean the whole house, but, as we should say, special ‘quarters’ in it. Here referring to the general sitting-room for the mistress of the family and her maids; cp. “ἔς τ᾽ ἐμὰ ἔργ᾽ ὁρόωσα καὶ ἀμφιπόλων ἐνὶ οἴκῳ” Od.19. 514.This room lay behind the “μέγαρον”, and is called “θάλαμος” in Od.17. 36.The same phrase recurs in Od.21. 354; 23. 292: and infra 360 “οἶκόνδε βεβήκει”, cp. Od.4. 717“οὐδ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔτλη”

“δίφρῳ ἐφέζεσθαι πολλῶν κατὰ οἶκον ἐόντων”. From the “οἶκος” there was an ascent to the “ὑπερώιον”.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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