Guest Blogger- Athena
After speaking to Telemakhos, I went back to my throne on Mount Olympus to watch how his journey progressed. I saw him wake up and call the Akhaians to assembly, so that he could follow my advice and tell them about his trouble with the suitors. Telemakhos started up the assembly with a great sense of courage and amazing strength and emotion, but that wasn't enough for the Akhaians who were annoyed with him and his mother for not allowing the suitors to take her hand in marriage. I wanted to come down from my throne and help him, but I had to let him find his own path and help himself. The Akhaians told him that he had to either dismiss his own mother from the house (the outrage) or he had to give her to the suitor which her father chose for her; thankfully Telemakhos couldn't stand for this, though he had no choice, and he decided a compromise: he would go out on a quest to find news of his father, and if when he came back he didn't have news, the suitors could have his mother. Sometimes mortals can be quite intelligent. Anyway, once the meeting was finished, Telemakhos came to the seashore and prayed to me, so I flew down from the heavens, took the form of Mentor, and came to Telemakhos where I told him not to fret and that I'd help him find a crew and rig the boat to take on the quest. Telemakhos left to go home to tell the suitors of the plan and to get prepared for the journey while I went to find the crew. He told his nurse to gather the provisions and meet him at night, and especially not to tell his mother for she would try to stop him. As night drew near and the sailors I chose gathered near the docks, I decided to shower a deep sleep over the suitors, and as the went home, Telemakhos gathered his provisions and left his house to meet his boat and crew. Then we all set off into the dawn over the ocean.
Picture from: http://students.ou.edu/E/Ryan.C.Emrick-1/episode1.html
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