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What happens to the suitors at the end of the story?
With the help of Athena, his son, and a few servants, he kills all of the suitors and reclaims the home.
What happens to the suitors in the Great Hall?
Tearing off his beggar rags, Odysseus boldly catapults himself onto the hall’s threshold, utters a brief prayer to Apollo, and fires an arrow straight through a new target: Antinous’ throat. Only after that does he announce his intentions to the suitors in no uncertain terms. All suitors are killed.
What happens to the suitors families?
They are all killed, save Odysseus. When Odysseus arrives at his home, he learns that a group of suitors have been trying to seduce his wife. Through the help of Athena, his patron goddess, Odysseus slays all of the suitors.
Do all the suitors die in the Odyssey?
Together, Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus and Philoetius kill the suitors and the disloyal maidservants. For reasons of oral presentation (i.e., a memory aid), the suitors are usually listed in the same order throughout the Odyssey.
What happens in the suitors in the Odyssey?
Basically, the suitors run rampant through Odysseus’ mansion, eating all of the food, slaughtering the livestock, and harassing Penelope for her hand in marriage. Remember, poor Penelope and her son have to deal with this for years and years.
What happens at the end of Homer’s Odyssey?
A stalemate exists, and it is only resolved by a bow contest at the end of the poem, which then leads to a slaughter of all the suitors by Odysseus and his son Telemachus. Peace on the island is eventually restored through the intervention of Athena, goddess of wisdom, victory and war.
What did the suitors do in the Odyssey?
How do the suitors respond?
How do the suitors respond? After Antinous is killed and Odysseus says that he will kill all of the rest of the suitors, what do the suitors do/how do they respond? they scapegoat Antinous and blame everything on him and then promise to make Odysseus rich again by taxing the people of Ithaca. Who kills Amphinomus?
What did the suitors want?
There he found that 108 young men, the suitors, had invaded his house. Their purpose was to put pressure on Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, to marry one of them. The suitors are described negatively as being rude, slovenly, disrespectful and ungrateful.
Should Odysseus have killed the suitors?
In addition to having the justification in order to kill the suitors he also was justified to kill the maids. All they did was aide the suitors. They made no effort to get the suitors out of the house. This is why Odysseus was justified to kill them.