Book 8 Summary/Note: They throw a party. Odysseus wrecks a guy at discus and cries when the bard sings about the fall of Troy.
They call pigs TUSKERS, which is fun.
Some guy stars shit talking Odysseus and says he has no skill and was the skipper of "some tramp" so Odysseus tells him that he has "an empty noodle" and beats him at discus throwing.
A harper tells the story of Ares and Aphrodite's affair, which involves Hephaestus calling her a "damned pigeon." He catches them in a metal net, but Hermes is like "doesn't matter, had sex."
There's a reference to a singular God here, which I think is Zeus in other translations. I'm guessing the original might've been something like father-god? Interesting translation quirk.
I believe this is the first account of the Trojan horse. It's brief, basically just that the Trojans brought it in while the Achaeans hid inside. At the end of this section, Odysseus starts crying and Alcinous asks who he is, which prompts Odysseus to finally tell us how he wound up lost at sea in the next section.
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