Who is Eurymachus in the Odyssey?

Eurymachus is one of
the suitors in the Odyssey who has taken over Odysseus's home. In Book II,
after Zeus sends down two eagles as a sign that Telemachus's warning to the suitors to leave
Odysseus's palace should be obeyed, Eurymachus replies, "Im a better hand than you at
reading portents. / Flocks of birds go fluttering under the suns rays, / not all are fraught
with meaning." Eurymachus blithely avoids listening to the signs of the gods, and he says
that Odysseus is dead and that Penelope should marry one of the suitors. He also discounts
Telemachus as a threat. He constantly disobeys the signs of the gods and flouts the Greek laws
of hospitality.

For a while,...