Dr. Emily Hauser

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The Ancients · Odyssey | Sea of Monsters & Slaughter of the Suitors · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

And that's quite fun because his name means noos, which is the noos bit at the end.

That means thought or mind and anti means against.

So he's a sort of plotter against, he's someone who can think in response and against your every move.

And that's obviously exactly what someone like Odysseus is going to be extremely threatened by because he's a bit cunning and crafty.

So Antinous and all of the other men, they are a real threat to Odysseus.

And that is basically what he, as he's gathering these various different allies and factions, he's working out who is faithful to him and who is faithful to the suitors.

Absolutely.

And the intimidation of Telemachus at the beginning and then the outright kind of attempt to kill him is very much a part of this kind of escalation that the suitors are engaging in.

Of course, that will end in the fact that Penelope does ultimately decide that she's going to have a marriage contest.

So the suitors at that point think they've really, you know, their tactics of work, they've been kind of scaling up and they're about to marry Penelope in their minds.

Well, this is the famous trick that Penelope engages in.

And we've been talking a lot about kind of the cunning of Odysseus.

But I think it's important that we also recognise and acknowledge the immense cunning of Penelope.

who is in many ways kind of a foil for Odysseus in terms of kind of just how smart she is and how she's able to kind of outwit the suitors.

So we learn multiple times through the poem that Penelope has come up with this amazing ruse in order to kind of fend off the suitors.

You know, we're looking at a lot of years that she's had to kind of keep them at bay.

And for multiple years, one of the things that she said she would do was that when she had finished weaving this funeral shroud for Laertes, that's Odysseus' father, then at that point she would marry a suitor.

So she's given them an end point.

However, what they don't know, of course, is that every night she is unweaving whatever she has woven during the day.

And in so doing, for about four years, she manages to fend off the suitors.

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