Antinoös Timeline and Summary

When Telemachos orders that the suitors leave by dawn, Antinoös protests and mocks Telemachos.
During the Ithakan council, Antinoös condemns Telemachos for saying such shameful things about the suitors.
He accuses Penelope herself of deceiving them all. He tells the story of Laertes’s shroud.
Antinoös issues an ultimatum to Telemachos: he must either banish Penelope or force her to choose a suitor. Telemachos refuses to do either.
Antinoös learns from Noëmon that Telemachos went to Pylos instead of inland as he claimed. Enraged, he suggests that the suitors ambush the young Prince on his way back and kill him. Everyone thinks this sounds just dandy.
A few days later, when news that Telemachos has returned home safely reaches the suitors, Antinoös urges his fellow men to strike the first blow, now that it is common knowledge that they tried to kill the Prince.
When the beggar first comes to the great hall during supper, Antinoös scolds Eumaios for bringing him.
Antinoös, enraged at the beggar, throws a footstool at the man and hits him in the shoulder. Odysseus (the beggar) pretends to ignore it, but is seething inside.
Antinoös urges the beggar and Iros to fight.
During the test of the bow, Antinoös orders Melanthios to build a fire so that they can limber the bow over it in hopes of bending it (and therefore stringing it) more easily.
This doesn’t work.
Antinoös, fearing that he will soon fail, suggests to his friends that they feast and try the bow thing tomorrow. So they feast.
When the beggar asks to have a crack at the bow, Antinoös reprimands him for his daring; he (Antinoös) is overruled by Telemachos and the Queen.
As Antinoös is raising a goblet of wine to his mouth, Odysseus kills him with an arrow to this throat.
Antinoös dies.

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