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…showed last 75 words of 522 total…the insults of suitors and other beggars while dressed in the disguise of a beggar then gently persuades his wife that he is really Odysseus. Penelope, equal to Odysseus in bravery and intellect, has also transformed and demonstrates it near the dramatic conclusion when the true Odysseus is finally revealed to her. Then as a last act of a changed man Odysseus appeased Poseidon, whom he earlier insulted, by founding a shrine in his honor.