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Books 1-4: The Telemachy

Books 1-4: The Telemachy. BOOK 1. The Odyssey begins on Ithaca where we meet Odysseus’ family. Son Telemachus. Wife Penelope. Everyone thinks Odysseus is dead except Penelope and Telemachus. Penelope’s got issues with suitors. Penelope is trying her best to outsmart the suitors.

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Books 1-4: The Telemachy

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  1. Books 1-4: The Telemachy

  2. BOOK 1

  3. The Odyssey begins on Ithaca where we meet Odysseus’ family. Son Telemachus Wife Penelope

  4. Everyone thinks Odysseus is dead except Penelope and Telemachus. Penelope’s got issues with suitors.

  5. Penelope is trying her best to outsmart the suitors.

  6. Telemachus has issues with suitors too, but Athena has a plan. Go visit Nestor on Pylos and Menelaus on Sparta and then you shall learn the truth about your father

  7. BOOK 2

  8. Telemachus gathers all the men of Ithaca. Zeus sends a sign.

  9. Telemachus sets sail for Pylos

  10. BOOK 3

  11. Telemachus meets King Nestor in Pylos Sup old man Greetings young man

  12. Nestor tells the sad story of Agamemnon’s fate. Murders Married to Clytemnestra Having an affair with Agamemnon Murders Orestes, Agamemnon’s son Murders Aegisthus

  13. BOOK 4

  14. Telemachus and Pisistratus (Nestor’s son) visit Menelaus. Welcome to Sparta

  15. Menelaus tells of his journey home. Aphrodite is blamed for Helen’s infidelity. I have no idea what came over me. Aphrodite made me do it. It was horrible. We got stuck in Egypt for years!

  16. Meanwhile . . . Back at the ranch, erm, I mean Back in Ithaca . . .

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