The Slaying

Telemachos, the stranger who sits in your halls brings no shame upon you. I did not miss the mark.... ...But now it is time to make dinner ready for the Achaeans, while there is still light,

Odysseus spoke to Telemachos:

Odyssey Book 21 line 374-378 Barry B Powell
Odyssey Book 21 line 382-384 Barry B Powell

Odysseus Slays the Suitors, Jonathan Day

The suitors already started their dinner, so Homer didn't mean the suitors but, the people of the city, gathered at Pyrgi. And Odysseus seems to go there himself so, he nodded Telemachos.

Telemachos put on his sharp sword, the dear son of godlike Odysseus, and in his hand he took up his spear. He stood beside the chair at his father's side, armed in gleaming bronze.

But instead of leaving to the woods of Apollo Odysseus and Telemachos are now both armed for the killing. Well, let's skip the cruelly killing and add a black page for the waste of these young lifes.

RIP


108 suitors

8 of their servants
(Medon and Phemios are saved)

12 female slaves from the palace

Estimated amount of 12 people sitting at their tables like Melanthios

In total about 140 souls