Suitors of Penelope
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high-handed people · the suitors of Penelope · these suitors
in the texts
Odyssey
High-handed men foretold by Teiresias as courting Penelope and consuming Odysseus's household wealth, whom Odysseus will ultimately kill.
"‘When you get home you will take your revenge on these suitors;
Even though you may yourself escape, you will return in bad plight after losing all your men, in another man's ship, and you will find trouble in your house, which will be overrun by high-handed people, who are devouring your substance under the pretext of paying court and making presents to your wife.
Alcibiades 1
The suitors from the Odyssey whose fatal conflict with Odysseus is cited by Socrates as an example of strife over justice and injustice.
And from this difference arose the fights and deaths of the Achaeans, and of the Trojans as well, and of the suitors of Penelope in their strife with Odysseus.