Book 1 - Athene visits Telemachus

• Tell me, muse, the story


  Of the resourceful man
• He suffered great anguish on the 


  high seas to preserve his life and bring his comrades home
• But he failed to save those


  comrades, in spite of all his effort
• ‘It is for Odysseus that my heart


  Is wrung, the wise and unlucky Odysseus, who has been parted so long from all his friends’. [ Athene ]
• Yet all the gods pitied


  Him, except Poseidon, who pursued the heroic Odysseus with relentless malice
• Why did Orestes kill Aegisthus?

  Aegisthus killed his father, Agamemnon
• ‘What a lamentable things it is


  That men should blame the gods and regards us as the source of their troubles’ [ Zeus ]
• ‘He is not only the wisest man alive but has been the


  most generous in his offerings to the immortals’ [ Zeus ]
• ‘It is Poseidon, sustainer of the earth, who


  is implacable towards him on account of the cyclops’ [ Zeus ]
• She found the

  insolent suitors sitting in front of the door
• The first to see her was Telemachus


  the godlike youth, who was sitting disconsolate among the Suitors
• ‘You can tell us what has brought you here when


  you have had some food’ [ Telemachus ]
• ‘They are living free off another


  man - a man whose white bones are rotting‘ [ Telemachus ]
• ‘One glimpse of him in Ithaca, and they’d


  Pray for a faster pair of legs’ [ Telemachus ]
• Who is Athene disguised as?

  Mentes
• ‘The gods must be hindering his 


  return, because the good Odysseus is not dead, but alive somewhere on this earth’ [ Athene ]
• ‘No man can be

  certain of his parentage’ [ Telemachus ]
• ‘At any rate these banqueters


  In your house strike me as domineering and insolent’ [ Athene ]
• What does Athene tell Telemachus to do at the meeting?

  To tell the suitors to leave and let Penelope go to her fathers house
• What is Athene’s personal advice for Telemachus?

  ‘Set out and inquire about your long absent father’
• In Telemachus’ heart she had implanted


  spirit and daring, and had brought the image of his father to his mind even more strongly than before
• ‘It is too sad;


  it never fails to wring my heart’ [ Penelope ]
• ’For in that catastrophe no one 


  was dealt a heavier blow than I’ [ Penelope ]
• ’Making decisions must be men’s


  concerns, and mine in particular; for I am master in this house’ [ Telemachus ]
• It amazed them all that


  Telemachus should have the audacity to adopt this tone
• Telemachus lay planning in


  his mind the journey that Athene had suggested
• Telemachus C epithet?

  Courteous Telemachus
• Telemachus T epithet?

  Thoughtful Telemachus
• Telemachus P epithet?

  Prudent Telemachus
• Telemachus S epithet?

  Sensible Telemachus