Eurycleia (also spelled Eurýkleia or Euryclea).
In other traditions she is also called Antiphata.
Euryclea recognizes Odysseus when she is washing his feet. The nurse recognizes Odysseus by a unique old hunting scar that he got from a boar hunt when he was a child.
Eurycleia was the name of Odysseus's faithful old nurse.
by the scar on his body.
Odysseus' nurse recognizes Odysseus as she is bathing his feet, due to a old scar he received as a child on a boar hunt.
Odysseus' nurse recognizes Odysseus as she is bathing his feet, due to a old scar he received as a child on a boar hunt.
Eurycleia
She was Odysseus's nurse as a child and noticed a scar above his knee that he got hunting boar as a child.
His nurse
Odysseus's faithful dog, Argos, was the first to recognize him through his rags. Later on, the old nurse Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus while washing his feet, due to a scar he received as a child while on a boar hunt.
Eurekleia
Eurycleia is Odysseus and Telemachus's nurse and maid
When Odysseus first returned home to Ithaca, the only person who recognized him was his old nurse, Eurycleia. She was able to recognize Odysseus by a scar he had received as a child from a boar's tusk. She saw the scar when she was washing Odysseus's feet and nearly told Penelope that Odysseus was there, but he stopped her. In addition, his dog also recognized his master Odysseus and then died.