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Eurymachus, son of Polybus, is the second of the suitors to appear in the epic.Eurymachus acts as a leader among the suitors because of his charisma. He is noted to be the most likely to win Penelope's hand because her father and brothers support the union and because he outdoes the other suitors in gift-giving. [9]
Tyndareus was afraid to select a husband for his daughter, or send any of the suitors away, for fear of offending them and giving grounds for a quarrel. Odysseus was one of the suitors, but had brought no gifts because he believed he had little chance to win the contest.
One of two prominent suitors of Penelope vying for her hand in marriage, [1] the other being Eurymachus, Antinous was presented as a violent, mean-spirited, and over-confident character who wilfully defiles Odysseus' home while the hero is lost at sea. [2]
Eurymachus was the son of Polybus, also a suitor of Penelope. Mythology. In Homer’s Odyssey, Eurymachus, along with the majority of his fellow suitors, ...
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Suiter, 43, was an 18-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, and a United States Army veteran of the Iraq War. [4] Colleagues have said Suiter was "an honest and beloved cop"; a neighbor described Suiter saying, "He was pleasant; had a smile on his face all the time. He looks young ... looks vibrant and has a great spirit about him."
David Hackett Souter (/ ˈ s uː t ər / SOO-tər; born September 17, 1939) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 until his retirement in 2009. [4]