Odyssey book 22 notes

This book is extreamly graphic and gory!
Of course I expected Odysseus and Telemachus to kill the suiters never did I think it would be in such a barbaric way. First they kill all the suiters, with arrows and spears, then they make all the maids who betrayed penelope come down and clean up all the bodies, piling them up outside. After that the maids are brought outside and hung with one giant noose. Then Milanthius is brought in and gets his ears, nose, genitals, hands and feet cut off and is then left to die. At the end of this chapter, I thought of Odysseus and Telemachus in a whle new way. They were so merciless in their killing (even though the suiters and maids deserved it) I defintily didn't see it coming