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| “ | ♫When's your tramp of a mother gonna choose a new husband? Why don't you open her room so we can have fun with her?♫ | „ |
| ~ Antinous taunting Telemachus by insulting his mother, while also foreshadowing his attempted rape of her. |
| “ | ♫Hold him down, till the boy stops shaking. Hold him down, while I slit his throat. Hold him down, while I slowly break his pride, his trust, his faith and his BONES!♫ | „ |
| ~ Antinous plots to kill Telemachus. |
Antinous of Ithaca is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Polyphemus) in the 2022-2024 concept album EPIC: The Musical, an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. He is the main antagonist of the Wisdom Saga and the Ithaca Saga, based on the mythological figure of the same name.
The most prominent of Penelope's suitors, Antinous plans to force Penelope to marry him so that he will become king of Ithaca. As the years pass and he becomes more frustrated with her refusal to take a husband, he and the other suitors begin plotting to rape her and kill her son.
He was voiced by Ayron Alexander.
Biography[]
Antinous is one of 108 suitors who take advantage of Odysseus' twenty year absence to invade his palace and try to win over his wife Penelope so that she will marry one of them. Out of all the suitors, he is the loudest and most aggressive, to the point that the others refer to him as their leader. Over the course of twenty years Antinous has grown impatient with Penelope's refusal to choose a husband and only refrains from forcing her to choose because she has promised to make a decision as soon as she finishes weaving Odysseus' shroud, not knowing that Penelope is never going to finish said shroud and secretly unthreads it every night.
The Wisdom Saga[]
Antinous first appears during the song "Legendary". Odysseus' son Telemachus notes that the suitors are starting to get angry with the long wait, and some like Antinous are even becoming dangerous. Antinous and the other suitors all begin singing in unison demanding to know where Penelope's husband is, as they have gone for twenty years without a king.
Antinous makes his first individual appearance later in the song when he interrupts Telemachus by throwing a glass at him, and demands to know when his "tramp of a mother" will choose a husband, even suggesting that Telemachus unlock her bedroom so he can have some "fun" with Penelope. Telemachus confronts him over this insult to his mother, but Antinous mockingly asks him what he's gonna do about it. This segues into the next song, "Little Wolf", in which Telemachus tries to defend Penelope by fighting Antinous. The fight is a one-sided onslaught in which Antinous easily beats him down while bragging that he will break every bone in Telemachus' body and mocking him over his absent father. This is witnessed by Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who uses her quick-thought ability to advise Telemachus on how to stand up to Antinous.
Antinous is taken by surprise as Telemachus suddenly uppercuts him and lands several more blows, almost defeating him completely, but Antinous is still much stronger and eventually wins the fight. As a battered Telemachus crawls away to his room Antinous tells him that if Penelope doesn't take a husband soon, he and the other suitors will "bring blood and tears" to Ithaca.
The Ithaca Saga[]
Antinous and the other suitors are told that Penelope will marry whichever suitor can string Odysseus' old bow and fire an arrow through twelve axes. While the other suitors try and fail to complete the challenge for several hours, Antinous realises it is a ploy to prevent any of them from ever marrying her. He asks the other suitors what happened to their pride and tells them they have a chance to finally seize control, as Telemachus has gone on a diplomatic mission and is returning to Ithaca that day. Antinous proposes that they lie in wait on the beach for Telemachus to arrive, board his ship and hold him down while Antinous tortures and kills him. With nobody left to protect Penelope, the suitors will break into her bedroom and rape her.
The other suitors approve of Antinous' plan and triumphantly pronounce that they will take control as Antinous himself climbs atop a table and continues to rally them behind his evil plan. However, no sooner has Antinous finished singing than a newly-returned Odysseus appears in the palace and shoots him with an arrow, causing him to collapse dead. Odysseus then extinguishes the torches and begins killing the other suitors. One of them, Eurymachus, tries to shift all blame for their crimes onto the deceased Antinous, but Odysseus does not accept this and slaughters all of them.
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Trivia[]
- Antinous had a larger role in early drafts of EPIC which would've had him survive being shot by Odysseus and lead the suitors during the final battle, even fighting Odysseus one to one.
External Link[]
- Antinous on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Antinous on the EPIC: The Musical Wiki