Character
Antinous
Ringleader of the suitors · son of Eupeithes
The most aggressive of Penelope's suitors and the ringleader among them, son of Eupeithes. He plans the ambush meant to kill Telemachus at sea, and he throws a footstool at the disguised Odysseus for the offence of asking him for bread — behaviour towards a guest that even the other suitors find shabby. He is the first to die, with an arrow through his throat as he lifts a cup of wine.
He dies mid-swallow, before he has understood anything. The poem gives the most aggressive suitor the least warning of all of them.