When Penelope is retrieving Odysseus’s bow, she opens the door by inserting the key “aiming straight and true” (Od. 21. 55). Odysseus then uses the bow, with the arrow “aiming straight and true” (Od. 21. 468). The repetition of the line show the connection between Penelope’s and Odysseus’s interactions with the bow. The true in “aiming straight and true” refers to the arrow staying true to the course the archer plans. It also symbolizes Penelope and Odysseus staying true and loyal to each other through their twenty years apart. In book 24, the ghost of Amphimedon recounts the fall of the suitors to the ghost of Agamemnon. During his retelling, Amphimedon mentions “aiming straight and true” (Od. 24. 199) when describing Odysseus shooting the