He has caught the enemy by surprise, cut off escape, destroyed its leadership, and caused confusion. Telemachus fetches armor for the king and himself as well as the two loyal herdsmen. The suitors have only the swords that they wear. However, the sinister goatherd Melanthius complicates matters.
Familiar with the castle, he retrieves a dozen spears and armor to match from the storeroom whose door Telemachus has carelessly left ajar. Odysseus sees the danger but resists panic. His faithful herdsmen cut off Melanthius' second trip and hang him live by the rafters. At this crucial point in the battle, as Odysseus agonizes, Athena appears in the form of Mentor.
The king recognizes his true mentor, the goddess, and takes heart as she reminds him that these are not Trojans that he faces. These are only the suitors. He fights on with renewed vigor. The king's faithful servant can't resist asking Ctesippus how he likes his mockery now Odysseus dispenses justice harshly but not without mercy. Leodes pleads that he was only the suitors' priest, but Odysseus knows that he was the first to try to string the bow and win Penelope.
Odysseus decapitates him with one swipe, the head softly bouncing in the dust. Following Telemachus' recommendation, the king spares Phemius the bard and one of the heralds. With classic understatement, Odysseus observes that he has only a few "household chores" He asks Eurycleia to identify the maidservants who were disloyal.
A dozen are called in. They must clean the gore from the great hall, after which they are taken to the courtyard and hanged. The maidservants "kicked up heels for a little — not for long" Then Melanthius, the goatherd who assaulted Odysseus on the road to town and later mocked him at the palace, is dragged into the courtyard. His nose and ears are cut off. Odysseus' wife Penelope has suitors because of Odysseus' long absence. They assume that he is dead, and they hope to marry Penelope to inherit all that she has.
The suitors believe Odysseus to be dead. They wish to inherit his vast fortune and kingdom. Many suitors had come to woo "the widow". She put them off with a ruse, persuading them to wait until she had finished a funeral shroud for Laertes , Odysseus's father, which she wove by day and secretly unravelled by night. In this way she managed to deceive them for three years. In Homer's Odyssey, Calypso attempts to keep the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island to make him her immortal husband.
According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus prisoner at Ogygia for seven years. Odysseus feels bad about what became of his dog and he hides his tear to keep it together and not seem weak. The owner and dog were a hunting pair and the owner died abroad. What happens to Argos after he has seen his master? None of the suitors can even string the bow so none of them even gets a shot at the axe handles.
The reason that this is so hard is that the bow is very stiff. The man who completes this will be able to string Odysseus' bow. Then, he will shoot an arrow through twelve ax head handles. Mainly, Poseidon hates Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus , who is Poseidon's son. Other reasons include their support for opposing sides in the Trojan war, Poseidon siding with the Trojans and Odysseus with the Greeks.
Odysseus has made some mistakes. No one's saying otherwise. He blinded a Cyclops, he invoked the wrath of Poseidon, and remember that time he got distracted by a sexy sea-witch for an entire year? Full disclosure, he also stole some cheese. But by far his biggest mistake was hiring his crew.
Odysseus kills Antinous first because he is seen as one of the leaders of all these suitors. He is loud and brash. What does Odysseus mean when he says "it's time to cook their lordships' mutton"? However, for reasons that only those who retaliate fully know, Odysseus refused any agreement, and exhorted them to fight or run for their lives. This is how the SUITORS' season of insolence and pleasure came to an abrupt end, and they would have wished that some familiar voice had woken them up from this nightmare so that they could have dinner again.
Instead they were forced to fight for their lives, but Odysseus , assisted by his swineherd Eumaeus 1 , his cowman Philoetius, and his son Telemachus , killed them all, who were the nicest young men of the island realm, meant to become the elite of Ithaca, Cephallenia, Dulichium, and Zacynthos, the sons of the best families of the kingdom.
The wrath of Odysseus knew no mercy, and when Liodes begged for his life, arguing that he only had been the SUITORS' priest, Odysseus , answered before killing him: "How often, then, you must have prayed in this hall that the happy day of my return might be put off …" Odysseus to Liodes. But after the extraordinary victory over more than one hundred men, Odysseus did not wish to have any jubilation, for he found it an impious thing to exult over the slain who were victims of their own infamy.
Disloyal servants punished Instead he asked Euryclia which among the fifty women-servants in the palace had been disloyal. And the twelve that had disgraced themselves were ordered to clean the battlefield, removing the bodies of the slain and washing tables and chairs.
And when the whole house was again in order, Telemachus and the two herdsmen took the women who had slept with the SUITORS to the courtyard, and hanged them. And they also killed the disloyal servant and goatherd Melanthius 2 , who sided with the SUITORS, after slicing his nose and ears off and ripping away his privy parts as raw meat for the dogs. And they were so angry at him and his lack of loyalty that they also lopped off his hands and feet.
Consequences The massacre was not without consequences. Eupeithes was killed by Laertes, and the attack failed. But some say that this feud did not end here, and that both parties sent for Achilles ' son Neoptolemus , who was king in Epirus, to act as arbiter.
Neoptolemus then condemned Odysseus to be exiled, and in accordance with the sentence he retired to Italy. And they paid the compensation to Telemachus in barley, wine , olive-oil, honeycombs, salt, and animals for sacrifice. Neoptolemus , some believe, judged in this way because he hoped to get possession of the island of Cephallenia, once Odysseus was put out of the way. Eumaeus 1 was Odysseus ' servant and swineherd.
He was son of Ctesius 1 , son of Ormenus 5. When Telemachus ruled Ithaca he bestowed freedom upon Eumaeus 1. Philoetius was also Odysseus ' servant and master-herdman.
Dulichium is one of the Echinadian Islands at the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth. Same is a city in the island of Cephallenia, which is in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania. Zacynthos is a large island opposite the coast of Elis.
Ithaca , where Odysseus had his home, is an island between Cephallenia and the Acarnanian coast. Acamas 4. From Dulichium Apd. Acarnan 2. Agelaus 5.
From Same. Son of Damastor 3. Killed by Odysseus Apd. Agenor 5. Agenor From Zacynthos Apd. Agrius 5. Amphialus 2. From Ithaca Apd. Amphimachus 4.
Amphimachus 5. Amphimedon 1. Amphimedon 1 , son of Melaneus 2 , was killed by Telemachus Apd. Amphinomus 2. Amphinomus 2 , who came from Dulichium and was the son of Nisus 2 , pleased Penelope above all others and is said to have seduced her. He was killed by Telemachus.
King Nisus 2 of Dulichium was son of Aretias, otherwise unknown Apd. Andraemon 3. Andromedes 2. Antenor 2. Antimachus 3. Antinous 2. Antinous 2 was from Ithaca. Antinous 2 , son of Eupeithes, was shot dead by Odysseus. From Same Apd. Argius 3. Bias 3. Celtus 2. Cerberus 2. Clymenus 3. Clytius 2. Clytius 3.
Clytius 4. Ctesippus 2. This is the suitor who hurled a cow's hoof at Odysseus the beggar. He was the son of Polytherses and was killed by Philoetius Apd.
Ctesippus 3. Ctesius 2. Cycnus 5. Damastor 2. From Dulichium. Echion 3. Elatus 4. Killed by Eumaeus 1 Apd. Eteoneus 1. Eumelus 2. Killed by Telemachus Hom. Euryalus 2. Euryalus 3. Eurydamas 4.
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