I am interested if Nolan actually depicts the killing of the servant girls and the execution of Melanthius
as per the epic, fter the suitors and the unfaithful maidservants are executed, Telemachus and the loyal herdsmen drag Melanthius into the inner courtyard for his final punishment where first they use curved bronze blades to slice off his nose and ears. Then they rip away his genitals (referred to in translations as his "private parts" or "vitals") and toss them into the yard for the palace dogs to eat raw. Then they chop off his hands and feet. I think melanthus lives through this and surv7ves for some time later