The story of The Odyssey shows the importance of hospitality and generosity in the relationship of guest and host. ... The slaying of the suitors is acceptable in this situation because of their direct disobedience to the customs and the personal insults given to Odysseus. ... Over the course of the piece, several prophecies are made on Odysseus" return and that the day of reckoning for the suitors would come soon. ... Also, Eurymachus even agrees with Odysseus" anger and tells him he has the "right" to want to kill them all off (441.48). All of the suitors were offered the chance to leave ...

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"The Odyssey," by Homer, follows the journey of Odysseus after a ten year war campaign in Troy. ... After killing all of the suitors, Homer translates the great tactitioner as a ferocious beast, saying, In the shadowy hall full of dead men she found his father spattered and caked with blood like a mountain lion when he has gorged upon an ox, his kill-- with hot blood glistening over his whole chest, smeared on his jaws, baleful and terrifying-- even so encrimsoned was Odysseus up to his thighs and armpits (XXII, 446-55). ... There were a plethora of ways Odysseus could have killed the...

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