In Homer he is the cruelty made personal. As Odysseus moves through the hall in rags, Ctesippus picks up an ox-hoof from a platter and hurls it at him as a “guest-gift.” The disguise holds. Odysseus does not respond. Later in the slaughter he is killed by Philoetius, who reminds him of the ox-hoof on the way down. [SPOILER: In the retelling, that specific cruelty gets folded into Antinous’s footstool throw. Ctesippus survives only as a name on the dead. Same craft choice as with Amphinomus and Eurymachus, the hundred suitors collapse into one face and one act, and the others are statistics.]
Ctesippus
A suitor, named once on the body pile after the slaughter. In Homer, the one who threw an ox-hoof at the disguised Odysseus.