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The suitors are trying to woo Penelope for her hand in marriage as they believe Odysseus dead (or gone forever).

In literary terms, they serve as antagonists, obstacles, the evil against good and the third of a love triangle which parallels to Agamemnon's story.
Because she was a rich and beautiful widow (so they thought).

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