Get The Odyssey Penelope And The Suitors PNG. He attacks and kills them without contemplating the consequences for his actions. She even makes the suitors think that she would be choosing her new husband soon in the odyssey, odysseus acts impulsively in killing the suitors.

The slaughter of the suitors by odysseus and telemachos was painted in 1812 by thomas degeorge. She may have been queen of ithaca, but she had little actual power. She then decides to put the suitors to a challenge.

What if telemachus could no longer bear the degradation of being fatherless, and of having his home swarmed by suitors looking to marry his apparently widowed mother?

In facing the suitors, penelope and odysseus achieve success through slyness and their eagerness to reunite. Shown here, the mourning penelope sits in a traditional pose with her hand to her forehead and her legs crossed. At the start of the story, odysseus and his army once home, he tells off the suitors, gets back into being king, reunites with penelope and telemachus, and avoids a war in. She's like an ancient greek martha stewart, without the pesky insider trading scandal: