Odysseus and the Suitors http://www.philipresheph.com. Web. 28 March 2011
I think Odysseus should be tactical with his thinking, and he should try not to undermine the suitors. He should also pray alot to goddess Athena, she might help him with some sort of power. The suitors may be slobs, but most arent completly stupid. I think a good way to outsmart them would have been to poison their food. Like if Odysseus and the swineherd teamed up and poisoned on of the pigs with a berry rub, or boil the meat in a poison root sauce. Then after I’m sure hours of Gorging on food and drink, they start to feel the poison kick in. Slowly they weaken, till the point of cardiac arrest. Unable to protect themselves, Odysseus and Telemachus should storm into their home, assert themselves and shown those suitors who the alfa males really are. The suitors would be on the verge of dyeing, it would be more like putting them out of their misery. I mean Odysseus fought in troy, won, then went through a paralysis journey just to get home, you’d think he’d be down to do just about anything just to be home with his wife and son. And one symbol would be food in the odyssey. All that it seems the suitors do is sit around, mess around with the other younger maids, then decides to nothing all day but eat food, which could be a bad thing.
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Posted by kbecca on April 11, 2011 at 1:15 am
I like the idea of poisoning the suitors first so the odds are on Odysseus’s side and he has a good way of killing them all.
Posted by littlefoot23 on April 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I agree with kbecca i really think poisoning them is a good way to do it and definitely not as messy as others i have read about. I also like how the picture really portrays the method you described.
Posted by Guidence Of Athena on April 12, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Poisoning the suitors is a good plan considering the irony that they have eaten Odysseus’ wife and son’s food for years and treated them badly.