suitors

• Morrison - “The suitors are terrible guests and clearly violate the code of xenia”
• Bowra - “at the other extreme from the true nobility of the heroic ideal”, they are a “degenerate corruption of heroes”
• Jones - The Suitors, despite divine warnings, take what they have no right to in Odysseus’ palace, something that, if the model remains true (Aegisthus), will lead to punishment
• Gottesman - “Their death has to be seen as an execution rather than a murder”