Phemius and Medon I think...
Odysseus shows them his scar he got when he was a younger boy. Seeing the scar, the servants are convinced he is in fact their master.
None of the suitors' lives are spared; Odysseus and his party kill them all. Odysseus does spare Phemius the minstrel, and Medon the herald.
Phemius, son of Terpes is the gifted bard in the Odyssey. He plays for the suitors unwillingly while they feast in Odysseus' palace. When Odysseus fights the suitors, Phemius begs for his life and is spared with Telemachus' intervention.
Odysseus asks the servants to move all the suitors' weapons to another room as part of his plan to confront the suitors without them having access to weapons.
They are two servants that served the household of Odysseus. They were spared because they were taking orders from Penelope (Odysseus' wife) to entertain the suitors--that were trying to take make Penelope remarry because they believed that Odysseus was dead and they needed a new king--. The other maids were taking care of the dying suitors because the family of Odysseus that is why they were killed.
"The tornado destroyed two-thirds of the buildings in the small town, but spared the newly finished church and school."
They are destroyed by Zeus because they harmed Helios sheep and cattle.
The Iliad and the Odyssey.
Which old days? Who's servants? It really depended on those two elements. Slaves were servants, and personal assistants are the modern servants. As you can see, there's a huge difference between the two, and there were servants that did everything you can imagine at some point in history.
Spread will make drapes and spared.
Eumaeus, the loyal swineherd in Homer's Odyssey, expresses the belief that servants without a master face uncertainty and lack protection and guidance. He feels that having a master provides stability and purpose for servants.