book two

• athene "endows" telemachus with supernatural grace
• aegyptius, the father of one of odysseus' men antiphus is the first to speak, questioning who called them here, praising the man who did it
• telemachus laments about the suitors to the assembly
• eurymachus defends the suitors, blaming penelope for delaying the marriage by unpicking laertes' funeral shroud
• penelope's trick is exposed by one of her women
• penelope is praised by eurymachus, but he says she has misused her wits given to her by athene !! metis
• telemachus prays to be able to destory the suitors and zeus sends an omen of two eagles clawing at each other
• halitherses prophecises that odysseus will return to "sow seeds of bloody doom" but eurymachus dismisses him, telling him to run home to his children
• eurymachus makes his own prophecy, saying that if halitherses incites telemachus to violence he will earn a fine and telemachus will be worse off
• eurymachus says the suitors will stay until penelope decides
• telemachus asks for a crew and ship for his journey
• mentor speaks against the suitors to leocritus' indignation, calls him a "crazy fool" and breaks up the assembly
• telemachus prays to athene and she appears to him as mentor, chastising him to motivate him to go on his trip
• telemachus listens, gives a speech to the suitors which angers them and they plot to kill him
• telemachus tells eurycleia of his plan, asks her to get supplies and not tell penelope
• athene disguises herself as telemachus and gathers 20 men and a ship, moors the ship, speaks to the men
• athene then drugs the suitors so they are sleeping when telemachus leaves
• athene then disguises herself as mentor to go on the ship