Bk XXII:1-67 The death of Antinous
第二十二卷，敘述結構有些鬆散，有些評論書給這卷下一個小標題: Death in the Great Hall，血腥之氣似乎抹煞不少原有的浪漫與傳奇。開始先提Odysseus掃射現場的追求者，第一個被殺的是Antinous，第二個是Eurymachus。在讀Odysseus報復成功的這些場景，我並不覺得痛快，反而覺得Odysseus太極端太殘忍，他大開殺戒，毫不手軟，但是這些追求者有如此罪大惡極嗎？這是場總決算(contest, ἆθλος, Odyssey 22.5)？但真的公平嗎？還是Odysseus清算？他甚至沒留任何一個可以逃脫的出口給別人：
‘Εὐρύμαχ᾽, οὐδ᾽ εἴ μοι πατρώϊα πάντ᾽ ἀποδοῖτε,
ὅσσα τε νῦν ὔμμ᾽
ἐστὶ καὶ εἴ ποθεν ἄλλ᾽ ἐπιθεῖτε,
οὐδέ κεν ὣς ἔτι χεῖρας ἐμὰς λήξαιμι
φόνοιο
πρὶν πᾶσαν
μνηστῆρας ὑπερβασίην ἀποτῖσαι.
νῦν ὑμῖν παράκειται ἐναντίον ἠὲ μάχεσθαι
ἢ φεύγειν, ὅς κεν θάνατον καὶ κῆρας ἀλύξῃ:
ἀλλά τιν᾽ οὐ φεύξεσθαι ὀΐομαι αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον.
(Odyssey 22.61-67)
Eurymachus, if
you gave me
all the goods
you got from your own fathers,
everything
which you now own, and added
other assets
you could obtain elsewhere,
not even then
would I hold back my hands
from
slaughter, not until the suitors pay
for all their
arrogance. Now you’ve a choice—
to fight here
face to face or, if any man
wishes to
evade his death and lethal fate,
to run away.
But I don’t think there’s one
who will
escape complete destruction.
趕盡殺絕，後患無窮 (Odyssey 22. 27-30)，我看到史詩很忠實呈現人類的弱點，當Odysseus握有武器時，當憤怒席捲他的心，力與驕傲奪走他本應有的智慧，更可悲的是，逞一時報復之快，盲目地復仇，導致未來更多的悲劇。
我好奇，為什麼Odysseus不能原諒別人?
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