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Antinous: leader of the wooers trying to marry Penelope

Dear journal, June 2 2000BC Every day since Odysseus left I think about ruling the kingdom of Ithaca.All I need is to be wed to the queen. Although there are other suitors Penelope will surely pick me to accept her hand in marriage. I am the finest of all the suitors and also the leader. I will find a way to kill Telemachus son of Odysseus so that the crown may not be passed down to him when the time comes. Although I know I could not kill Telemachus alone I will get help from the other suitors. Rumours are being spread through out the great palace about Odyesseus returning home to Ithaca. I have thought about what could possibly happen when and if his returnal comes and came to realize it would not be pleasant for Odyesseus. If by chance he does return he will be an easy target to kill.He has been on his journey for a long time almost 40 years so if he does return he will be nothing but a weak old man easy to bring doom upon.

Dear Journal, June 16 2000BC

This is an outrage! Queen Penelope  has tricked us. She said before to the suitors that once she was done weaveing her quilt she would accept one of us to be her king.We had decided to compromise and do what the fair queen asked.At dawn we would see her weave until dark every day making hundreds and hundreds of stichtes. But then the next day it would have looked as if she bearly even picked up her quill. She would look very nervous when she would go into her chamber to rest her head and one knight I realized she had token her quill into her chamber. First I thought she had a big desire to finish her weaving but in the morning I had realized there was less weaving done then there was before.Suspensoins started to rise and I could no longer ingnore this problem for if she stalled any longer Odyesseus might come home. I heard from one of her servants Eurycleia  that she would unweave her quilt at night. It all seemed to make sense. She was afraid of her quilt being finished before Odyesseus returned home.She had promised to marry one of us and I knew that her choice would either be between me or Eurymachos . The other suitors can't compare to us. She has wasted my time and given me false hopes. Tommorrow she will marry one of us. And I, Antious am usually a very confident man but the thought of her marrying Eurymachos  is starting to make sense and I have started to doubt my self. She has to follow through with her promise and when Odysseus returns I will have penelope watch her own husband perish.. Penelopes life will no longer be full of freedom me and the suitors will ruin the house and the land of Ithaca until she weds. We have drunken their wine and eaten their food before but now we will bring the the house to crumbles.



Dear Journal, June 17 2000 BC

Ever since Penelope is being forced to decide who she weds she has gotten very unhappy. She drags her head in shame and although I do wish to be king I show remorse for her. Never has she betraded her husband and knowing that she must let go of Odyesseus,she must be crushed to know that at many time he could return and that maybe it would be too late and she will have already wed.

I dont think anyone knows Odyesseus more than I do. Not even Penelope understands. I am aware of what threat he could be and I know he is stil alive athough I have tried to push it out of my thoughts. I am aware he has worked hard to come home from the trojain war and he will not stop to get half way back to the way things were before with his family. I know that he will slay us all unless we come up with a devious clever plan. It ripples in my mind like a pebble thrown into a pool the one who knows him the most is afraid of him the most. Odysseus however is not aware of me he knows there are suitors but he is unaware of the things me and the suitors are cauble of doing. And that is what I hope to win by when he returns.

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