SUITORS IN ANCIENT GREECE.
A suitor is a male who pursues a relationship/marriage with a particular women. More times than not, the men are only interested for things such as fame and wealth. This is what is happening to Penelope while Odysseus is out at sea, and it was required she remarry by the time Telemachus grow his first beard. Clearly, Penelope fights off the suitors for many many years and refuses to remarry until Odysseus returns to Ithaca and slaughters all the suitors.
A suitor is a male who pursues a relationship/marriage with a particular women. More times than not, the men are only interested for things such as fame and wealth. This is what is happening to Penelope while Odysseus is out at sea, and it was required she remarry by the time Telemachus grow his first beard. Clearly, Penelope fights off the suitors for many many years and refuses to remarry until Odysseus returns to Ithaca and slaughters all the suitors.
QUOTES.
"I didn't see it, I didn't ask - all I heard was the choking groans of men cut down in blood. We crouched in terror - a dark nook of our quarters - all of us locked tight behind those snug doors till your boy Telemachus came and called me out - his father rushed him there to do just that. And then I found Odysseus in the thick of the slaughtered corpses; there he stood and all around him, over the beaten floor, the bodies sprawled in heaps, lying one on another . . ." (Book 23, 41-50)
