Though the minor characters Antinous and Eurymachus act as models of vice, eumaeus, Eurycleia, and pothinus are models of virtue that echo the values promoted by the epic, all contributing to the richness and depth to the Odyssey.

Antinoos and Eurymachus are minor characters in the Odyssey, but they add lots of depth by their acts of vice throughout the story. Antinous is the leader among the suitors, he tends to drink lots of wine and eat Odysseus’s best cattle. Antinous seems to antagonize the crowd of suitors when beggar king Odysseus and beggar Irus fight. Antinoos through a in a reward, whoever wins the fight gets a blood sausage. Antinous says to Irus that if he loses he will be sent to King Echetus to be slaughtered and