Antinous quotes from The Odyssey (2026)

Antinous

You’re pining for some daddy you didn’t even know, like some sniveling bastard.

Antinous

Somebody get these BEGGARS out of here!

Telemachus

He deserves the same welcome as all of you!

Polybus

Are you calling us beggars?

Telemachus

I'm saying you've been welcome here for three years.

Antinous

We've only enjoyed your hospitality for so long. Because your mother won't choose.

Telemachus

She's already married.

Antinous

Odysseus is dead.

Telemachus

What do you know about my dad?

Antinous

I know he kept stringing cattle in bad wine.

Telemachus

You had the best of it the first two seasons.

Antinous

I know he never came home.

Telemachus

Not yet.

Antinous

You're pining for a daddy you didn't even know. Like some sniffling bastard.

Telemachus

Well, since none of us can really know who our fathers are. Don't cling to one.

Antinous

But I did know him. As boys. We watched him hunt. I tried to volunteers for his expedition to Troy. He told me to stay here and keep an eye on you.

Telemachus

Oh, me and my mother?

Antinous

You can't blame me for looking.

Telemachus

My dad is coming home. And his hospitality won't be as generous as hers.

Antinous

So he doesn't follow Zeus' law then?

Telemachus

Zeus' law tells us to treat strangers as we should be treated because they might be gods in disguise. I think we've established to Antinous that you were not a god.

Polybus

This one doesn't smell like a god.

Telemachus

Wouldn't be much of a disguise if he did. [the beggar restrains Polybus] Careful. He might strike you down right now. [thunder claps]

That thunder was luck.

Telemachus

I don't know. You have wise eyes. Athena's eyes.

Antinous

You can't expect her to be loyal to Odysseus, someone she's never seen before.

Penelope

What about her loyalty to me?

Antinous

Bring me part of Telemachus as proof. His nose!

Would you know him only by his nose?

Antinous

... His ears, too.