In Homer, when the arrows start falling, Agelaus is the one who tries to make the suitors fight back as a unit. He calls for spears. He strategizes. He almost mounts a counter-offensive, until Athena’s intervention makes the fight one-sided. [SPOILER: He dies in the slaughter like the rest.] Teilo cuts him because the slaughter in the retelling is a hunt, not a battle. The suitors do not get to organize. They scatter like animals that sense the predator but don’t know where to run. They die with table legs and wine jugs in their hands. Giving one of them a tactical mind would have turned the reckoning into a contest. It is not a contest. It is a man finishing what was started.
Agelaus
Homer's rallying suitor. Once the doors are locked he tries to organize the resistance. Cut from the retelling.