The Odyssey - The Suitors
Mind map detailing the Suitors and key points about some of the Suitors in particular
- Created by: Katie Tovey
- Created on: 09-12-14 09:36
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- The Suitors
- Usually referred to en masse
- Similar to Odysseus' companions
- Antinous
- Leader of group
- Name suggests that he is antagonistic
- All speeches are direct, insulting and without disguise
- Initiates plot to kill Telemachus
- Insults Odysseus as a beggar and refuses to give him food
- Throws a footstool at him
- Rebuked be other Suitors - breaking code of xenia
- Eurymachus
- Tries to sooth Telemachus at the beginning
- Stern with the soothsayer, does not blame Penelope, but puts lots of emphasis on Penelope going back to her father
- Favoured choice of Penelope's father and brothers
- Telemachus sends Theoclymenus (the murderer that he helps) to Eurymachus' house instead of his own
- Tells Penelope that he will look after Telemachus, while "death for Telemachus was in his heart"
- Mocks Odysseus as a beggar and only throws a footstool at him when he is provoked
- Tries to shift the blame onto Antinous
- Amphinomus
- Penelope's favourite
- Diverts the Suitors' thoughts away from further actions when the plan to kill Telemachus goes wrong
- Greets the beggar at the feast and wishes him good fortune
- Feels a lot of guilt after Odysseus' warning
- Athene insists that he will face the same fate as the rest, and we are left to assume he did
- Antinous' character is constant throughout the epic, Eurymachus' is introduced as the novel continues and Amphinomus' is shown only at the end
- The Suitors are allowed a point of view
- They show some justice when they blame Penelope for tricking them
- Some are well behaved
- Unhappy when Antinous refuses to give alms to Telemachus
- Agelaus makes a speech full of good sense after Telemachus complains about their behavious towards the beggar
- Usually referred to en masse
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