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Leiodes

A suitor who serves as a priest and is killed despite pleading for mercy.

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First appearance: book xx the last banquet of the suitors

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  • Other

Character groups

  • Mythological and Secondary Characters
  • Penelope's Suitors and Kin
  • Protagonist
  • Mycenaean Royal Family

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Falling action.

SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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