Proci

Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse (1912).

Proci (Μνηστῆρες) were the suitors of Penelope in the Odyssey, all of whom were killed by Odysseus, Telemachus his son, and his two loyal servants, Eumaeus and Philoetius when the first-listed returned to Ithaca. The suitors were slain alongside the disloyal Ithacan servants {Melanthios, his sister Melantho and 11 maids}, but their herald Medon and their bard Phemius were spared at Telemachus's request.

The suitors' leaders are Antinous and Eurymachus. Others include

• Agelaus son of Damastor the fourth suitor killed-by Odysseus.
• Amphimedon, the ninth suitor to be killed- by Telemachus.
• Amphinomus, son of King Nisos, the only good-hearted suitor, who defends Odysseus and Telemachus in the presence of the others. Odysseus urges him in disguise to escape before the undisguised Odysseus "returns" and kills them all, but Amphinous ignores this plea and is the third suitor to be killed-by Telemachus.
• Antinous son of Eupeithes, the first suitor to be killed-by Odysseus
• Ctesippus, who abuses Odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar, throwing an ox-hoof at him. The eleventh suitor to be killed-by Philoetius.
• Demoptolemus the twelfth suitor-killed-by Odysseus.
• Elatus the sixth suitor to be killed-by Eumaeus, the swineherd..
• Euryades the fifth suitor to be killed- by Telemachus .
• Eurydamas the eighth suitor to be killed-by Odysseus.
• Eurymachus son of Polybus (Odyssey); the second suitor killed by Odysseus.
• Leocritus the thirteenth and last suitor to be killed-by Telemachus.
• Leodes, the seer; the fourteenth and last to be killed-by Odysseus.
• Peisander the seventh suitor to be killed-by Philoetius drover.
• Polybus (Odyssey) {father of Eurymaches}-the tenth suitor to be killed-by Eumaeus, the swineherd.

Location

The 108 suitors' homelands and numbers are

• 52 from Dulichium (with six valets)
• 24 from Same
• 20 from Zakynthos
• 12 from Ithaca (with two servants)