ggar asked could he try because he needed to get his hand on the bow. After much dispute about it, Odysseus got the bow. The first person he killed was the master mind or ring leader of the suitors, Antinous. Antinous was the one who came up with the ideas to kill his son, and eat him Zulu 6out of house and home until Penelope chose a man. After the suitors realized that Odysseus was back they began to beg for mercy by saying, But the man to blame lies here dead, AntinousNow hes been killed, and he deserved it. But spare your people. We will pay you back (22. 51-59). But Odysseus did not go for it; he continued to kill them. During the battle, some of the suitors went to one of the treacherous servants, Melanthius, and asked him to find out where the armor and weapons were. Melanthius found the weapons and begun dispensing them to the suitors. Eumaues and his friend caught Melanthius stealing weapons for the suitors and tied him up to be dealt with later. Meanwhile Odysseus and Telemachus were finishing off the suitors. Odysseus only spared Phemius, the bard, who was held against his will, and Medon the herald.After killing all of the suitors, Odysseus summoned his trusty nurse, Eurycleia, to tell him the women of the house who betrayed him. The women that the nurse named were made to take the bodies outside and then clean the house. After they completed their work Odysseus had them all hung. As for Melanthuis, who was still tied up, received the worst punishment of all. Then they brought Melanthius outside, and in their fury they sliced off his nose and ears with cold bronze and pulled his genitals out by the root-raw meat for the dogs and chopped off his hands and feet (22.497-502).Personally I think Aristotle would have been proud of the way Odysseus pulled this off. He was cunning and undercover, and most of all he took care of business. He acquired the victory on his own behalf. It is questionable if the revenge...
