- Telemachus suspects that Mentes was a disguised God but tells them it was only a friend of his father.
SECTION 2.
- It starts with the assembly.
- Telemachus gives a speech in which she orders the suitors to leave the state and stop taking over it.
- A wise Ithican elder admires and gives thanks to Telemachus for finally stepping into his fathers shoes, do to the fact that is the first time an assembly takes place since Odysseus left to war.
- Penelope seduces every suitor, but never commits to one of them.
- Penelope said that she was going to marry someone as soon as she finished weaving a burial shroud for her elderly father in law, Laertes.
- Penelope each night undid the knitting that she has finished that day so that she never could get married.
- Antinous said that if Penelope couldn't choose anyone, then she was going to be sent back to Icarius so that he can choose her a husband.
- Telemachus says that he won't throw his mother away and calls the gods for them to punish the suitors if they don't leave.
- A pair of eagles fly above their heads and Halitherses interprets this as a sign, if the suitors don't leave now, they with face a massacre.
- The suitors say it's all a lie and don't pay what Halitherses has to say.
- Telemachus is preparing for his trip to Pylos and Sparta.
- Athena visits Telemachus again but this time disguised as a mentor, who is another old friend of Odysseus. Mentor encourages Telemachus telling him that his trip will be fruitful.
- Athena then disguises herself as Telemachus himself and sets out to town to collect men to go with Telemachus in his journey. .
SECTION 3.
- Telemachus arrives along with mentor at Pylos.
- They witness an impressive religious ceremony in which dozens of bulls are being sacrificed to Poseidon.
- Telemachus has little experience with talking in public so mentor encourages him to go and talk to Nestor, the king of the city and ask him about Odysseus, .
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