book one

• athene disguises herself as mentes
• poseidon goes to visit the ethiopians
• athene as mentes gives a prophecy that odysseus will return
• athene tells telemachus to hold an assembly and kick out the suitors
• athene tells telemachus to let his mother go to her father's house if she wishes
• athene tells telemachus to sail to pylos to see nestor and then sparta to see menelaus, and inquire after his father
• athene tells telemachus to be as "brave as orestes"
• penelope asks the bard to change his son but telemachus rebukes her, sending her to her quarters as "decisions" are for men
• the suitors are shocked at telemachus' "bold and haughty way of speaking"