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Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse (1912).

Proci were the suitors of Penelope in the Odyssey, all of whom were killed by Odysseus, Telemachus his son, and his two loyal servants, Eumaeus and Philoetius when the first-listed returned to Ithaca. The suitors were slain alongside the disloyal Ithacan servants, but their herald Medon and their bard Phemius were spared at Telemachus's request. Image File history File links JohnWilliamWaterhouse-PenelopeandtheSuitors(1912). ... Image File history File links JohnWilliamWaterhouse-PenelopeandtheSuitors(1912). ... John William Waterhouse. ... Year 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Suitor redirects here. ... The Vatican Penelope: a Roman marble copy of an Early Classical 6th-century Greek work (Vatican Museums) For other uses, see Penelope (disambiguation). ... This article is about Homers epic poem. ... For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). ... Slaughter of the suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus, Campanian red-figure bell-krater, ca. ... In Greek mythology, Eumaeus, or Eumaios, was Odysseus swineherd and friend before he left for the Trojan War. ... In Greek mythology, Philoetius, was Odysseus cowherd and friend before he left for the Trojan War. ... For other places or objects named Ithaca, see Ithaca (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, there were two people called Medôn. ... In Greek mythology, Phemius, or Phêmios was an Ithacan singer who was forced to help the suitors against Penelope. ...

The suitors' leaders areAntinous and Eurymachus. Others include In Greek mythology, Antinous, son of Eupeithes, was one of the suitors of Penelope during the absence of her husband, Odysseus, at the Trojan war. ... Eurymachus, or Eurýmakhos, an Ithacan nobleman and the son of Polybus, was one of the leading suitors of Penelope in The Odyssey. ...

• Agelaus.
• Amphimedon.
• Amphinomus, the only good-hearted suitor, who defends Odysseus and Telemachus in the presence the others. Odysseus urges him in disguise to escape before the undisguised Odysseus "returns" and kills them all, but Amphinous ignores this plea and is killed by Telemachus.
• Ctesippus, who abuses Odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar, throwing an ox-hoof at him. He is killed by Philoetius.
• Demoptolemus.
• Elatus.
• Eurynomos.
• Euryades.
• Eurydamas.
• Leocritus.
• Leodes, the seer.
• Peisander.
• Polybus.

In Greek mythology, Agelaus, or Ageláos was a suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus. ... Amphimedon is a suitor of Penelope who gave a glancing blow to Telemachus with his spear before falling to him. ... In Greek mythology, Amphinomus, also Amphínomos (literally grazing all about), was the son of King Nisos and one of the suitors of Penelope that was killed by Odysseus. ... A suitor of Penelope who was killed by Odysseus. ... There were two figures named Elatus or Élatos in Greek mythology. ... Eurynomos is a demon in Greek mythology, sometimes identified with Hades (or Orcus in Roman mythology) and sometimes said to be a servitor of Hecate. ... Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 B.C. He was the author of a Heracleia, in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Hercules costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of the older armor of the heroic... Polybus was a famous physician. ...

Location

The 108 suitors' homelands and numbers are

• 52 from Dulichium (with six valets)
• 24 from Same
• 20 from Zakynthos
• 12 from Ithaca (with two servants)