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Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse (1912).

Proci (Μνηστῆρες) were the suitors of Penelope in the Odyssey, all of whom were killed by Odysseus, Telemachus his son, and his two loyal servants, Eumaeus and Philoetius when the first-listed returned to Ithaca. The suitors were slain alongside the disloyal Ithacan servants, but their herald Medon and their bard Phemius were spared at Telemachus's request.

The suitors' leaders are Antinous and Eurymachus. Others include

• Agelaus.
• Amphimedon.
• Amphinomus, the only good-hearted suitor, who defends Odysseus and Telemachus in the presence of the others. Odysseus urges him in disguise to escape before the undisguised Odysseus "returns" and kills them all, but Amphinous ignores this plea and is killed by Telemachus.
• Ctesippus, who abuses Odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar, throwing an ox-hoof at him. He is killed by Philoetius.
• Demoptolemus.
• Elatus.
• Eurynomos.
• Euryades.
• Eurydamas.
• Leocritus.
• Leodes, the seer.
• Peisander.
• Polybus.

Location

The 108 suitors' homelands and numbers are

• 52 from Dulichium (with six valets)
• 24 from Same
• 20 from Zakynthos
• 12 from Ithaca (with two servants)