Odysseus grabbed her throat with his right hand and told her he 'will not spare [her] when [he] kill[s] the rest, / the other slave women, although [she was] / [his] nurse'.
Iliad and Odyssey
Odysseus's brutal threat to Eurycleia after she recognizes him, demonstrating his ruthless determination to maintain secrecy and execute vengeance in The Odyssey.
c. 8th century BCE
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