Book 3 - Telemachus with Nestor

• Where does Nestor live?

  Pylos
• How is Pylos described?

  Pylos, the citadel of Neleus
• Where they found the people


  on the sea-shore, sacrificing jet-black bulls to Poseidon
• There were nine companies seated there,


  with five hundred men in each; and every company had nine bulls to sacrifice
• ‘Why have you crossed the seas, if not to 


  Find out where your father’s bones lie buried‘ [ Athene ]
• ‘How am I to go up to


  him? How am I to speak to him?’ [ Telemachus ]
• ‘Where your intelligence 


  fails, a god will inspire you‘ [ Athene ]
• As soon as they caught sight of the strangers they


  all made a move in their direction, took them both but the hand and invited them to join in
• The goddess was


  delighted at the good manners
• ‘Now that our visitors have eaten well,


  it is the right moment to put some questions to them’ [ Nestor ]
• ‘But Zeus has wrapped


  Even the death of Odysseus in utter mystery’ [ Telemachus ]
• ‘All the time there was not a man


  That dared to match his wits against the admirable Odysseus‘ [ Nestor ]
• ‘But Zeus had no intention


  Of letting us reach home so soon’ [ Nestor ]
• ‘Odysseus, that wise


  and subtle man’ [ Nestor ]
• ‘And many bull’s thigh we laid


  on Poseidon‘s altar after spanning that weary stretch of water’ [ Nestor ]
• Telemachus T epithet?

  Thoughtful Telemachus
• What is Nestor’s title?

  Nestor the Gerenian Charioteer
• Odysseus A epithet?

  Admirable Odysseus
• ‘For never in my life have I seen the 


  gods display such open affection as Pallas Athene showed in her championship of Odysseus‘ [ Nestor ]
• ‘For myself I would rather life through untold hardships to


  reach home in the end and see that happy day, than come straight back and die at my hearth’ [ Athene ]
• What story does Nestor tell Telemachus?

  The story of Agamemnon and Aegisthus
• ‘May Zeus and the other immortal gods forbid


  that you should go to your ship and turn aside from my house’ [ Nestor ]
• ‘There is no chance you will ever be a coward or weakling


  when, young as you are, you already have your guardian gods at your side’ [ Nestor ]
• What animal does Athene turn into?

  Vulture
• The beautiful Polycaste, King Nestor’s youngest


  daughter, now bathed Telemachus
• ‘Now my sons, fetch Telemachus a pair of 


  long-maned horses and harness them to a chariot’ [ Nestor ]