Telemachus

Telemachus’s great journey in The Odyssey, Telemachus gains incredible knowledge and obtains a crew, which allows for Telemachus to attempt to find Odysseus. When leaving Ithaca, Telemachus obtains a crew, “When they came down to the sea and reached the boat they found their long-haired crew waiting on the beach… He led off and the crew followed. They brought down all the stores and stowed them in their well-built ship” (2.404-414). This caused Telemachus to then travel the ocean to Pylos in…

weaknesses knocking down their strengths much like this. Telemachus and Antinous in The Odyssey are no exceptions from this rule; all of these characters run into problems that showcase the strengths and the weaknesses of each character through the characters’ merits and downfalls. Telemachus is one of the primary characters of The Odyssey, the sequel to The Iliad, set in the time of the ancient Greeks. In The Iliad, Odysseus, Telemachus’ father, had been through a series of misfortunes…

When the assembly meets the next day Aegyptius praises Telemachus for stepping into his father’s shoes, noting that this occasion marks the first time that the assembly has been called since Odysseus left. - Telemachus then gives an impassioned speech in which he laments the loss of both his father and his father’s home—his mother’s suitors, the sons of Ithaca’s elders, have taken it over. He rebukes them for consuming his father’s oxen and sheep as they pursue their courtship day in and day…

Athena, and this is 102.7 Mt. Olympus. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, today we have Telemachus here with us discussing his father’s disappearance. Telemachus (Kimberly): No need to bring my father into this, I’m pretty sure he is dead at this point. Athena: Ladies and Gentlemen, Odysseus is here. SOUND: Dun, DUN, DUN, DUN Athena: Wow, Congrats Odysseus you’re no longer an old hideous beggar. Telemachus: Oh my God, that’s not my father Odysseus, that’s a god. Please God have mercy on us.…

itself in diffrent ways to aid Odysseus and Telemachus. A major time when appearance had been used happened when Athena comes to Telemachus in the form of Mentes. Mentes had been a friend of Laureates so there can be no suspicion about her visiting. This is crucial because she comes to encourage and make the search possible for Telemachus to search for his father. “But never in this world is Odysseus dead, only detained somewhere on the wide sea.” Telemachus had given up hope until Athen had…

a family friend, Athena confronts Telemachus, telling him, "My advice to you is this [...] Get the best ship/you can find, put twenty oarsmen aboard, go and find out about your father/and why he is so long away..." (Homer 17). As Telemachus had been close to considering his father dead and embracing the position he was in, which could have potentially led to him imploring his mother to accept one of the suitors as her new husband. In addition to that, Telemachus full-heartedly accepts the choice…

In The Odyssey, the character Telemachus may be considered a hero because he exemplifies characteristics attributable to most heroes. The reader meets Telemachus when he is fed up with the suitors that have taken after his home and claim to be interested in marrying Telemachus’ mother, Queen Penelope. Since Telemachus’ parents are Queen and King of Ithaca, Telemachus is by default a noble prince with wealth. Telemachus’ father, King Odysseus, has been away from Ithaca for twenty years, which is…

shows the transformation of a naïve boy Telemachus undergoing a transition that showed him becoming a man. Telemachus was just an infant when his father Odysseus left Ithaca, their home for a war in Troy. He has grown up without a father figure devoted to his mother and his father’s estate. At the beginning of the book in book 1, the author shows Telemachus as weak, indecisive and hopeless. But as the book goes on and with the guidance of goddess Athena Telemachus is shown to take his rightful…

Telemachus begins in Ithaca, after a life of idle, standing up to the suitors plaguing his house. He remains flawed through his journey, however, he defines himself along the way and will learn from his mistakes. Although Telemachus is initially portrayed as a helpless reminence of his father's historic greatness, nevertheless through literal divine intervention from Athena, he kick starts the search for his father, and begins traveling through phases of maturation. In Book One, Telemachus,…

Athena has had the greatest influence on Telemachus’ growth. Homer’s epic The Odyssey demonstrates Odysseus’s son, Telemachus, at first as an inexperienced, timid, and helpless young prince that is greatly pampered by his mother, Penelope. Due to his lack of confidence and assertiveness, Telemachus struggles to stop the many suitors who overrun his father’s palace and greedily devour the family’s vast stockpile of food and wine. Like Odysseus, Telemachus experiences his own journey in The…