Question: who helps odysseus during the slaughter of the suitors in book xxii
Answer: Once Odysseus returns home ( whom Athena initially disguises as a beggar so he can plot his revenge in secret ) , his son Telemachus tells him that there are 108 suitors : 52 from Dulichium , 24 from Same , 20 Achaeans from Zacynthus , and 12 from Ithaca .