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A Very Brief Summary Of Odysseus The King

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Odysseus finally returns home and comes to find that men are lining up for his wife’s hand, even though Odysseus is still alive. Odysseus is infuriated and gets his revenge on all the suitors. He kills Antinous first because he was ridiculing him and he was also the strongest of all the suitors. He shoots an arrow through his throat as Antinous is drinking some wine. The suitors are going crazy and when he does this, but there rush of anger turns to fear when Odysseus tells what he is going to do to them. Then all the suitors change to pleading as they beg for lives and try to blame everything on Antinous who is dead! Nerveless Odysseus doesn’t believe them and proceeds to kill them, along with his son Telemachus. Then Athena sends down down

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