Character
Amphinomus
The one decent suitor · the man Penelope liked
The one decent suitor — the only man in the hall Penelope likes, and the one who talks the others out of murdering Telemachus. Odysseus, still disguised, tries to save him: he warns him plainly that the master of the house is coming back and tells him to go home. Amphinomus feels the danger, walks back to his seat anyway, and dies with the rest. He is there to prove the slaughter is not simple justice.
He is in the poem to stop the slaughter being simple justice. He is warned, he believes it, and he sits down anyway.