[SPOILER: The fathers of the dead suitors come up the road. Eupeithes, Antinous’s father, at the front. The cycle of feud doing what feuds do. Three generations stand together for the first time — Laertes, Odysseus, Telemachus. Athena breathes strength into the old man, and he throws. The spear goes through Eupeithes. Laertes kills the man who would have killed his son. It is a single throw, an old man rediscovering what his arms used to do, and it ends a chain of revenge that could have run for another generation. Then Athena lands and tells everyone to put their weapons down.]
Laertes's Spear
An old man's last throw. Eupeithes leads the avenging fathers up the hill and Laertes — older than anyone there — puts a spear through him.