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Who Is Telemachus Grief In The Odyssey

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The foolish boy sleeps; and a wise man awakens. During Telemachus’s journey he grows up into someone that is wise and resembles his father. Telemachus, a prince who did nothing but whine and complain wakes up with the help from the goddess Pallas Athena, Athena gives Telemachus confidence on his journey. In The Odyssey, Odysseus did not return home to Ithaca after the Trojan war, leaving Ithaca kingless. Back home in Ithaca Odysseus’s wife Penelope and son Telemachus grief his misery.

Most of the gods and goddess wanted Odysseus home to his family and planned a journey for him. When Athena first arrives in Ithaca, the first person she meets is Telemachus: “First by far to see her was prince Telemachus, sitting among the suitors,heart obsessed with grief” (Homer I, 132-133). Telemachus’s heart is obsessed with grief because his city lost a king and his father never returned home. Suitors had filled the pallas where Penelope, Odysseus’s wife and Telemachus. The suitors occupy the pallas because Penelope has to pick a husband to be the next king. Due to hospitality Penelope had to feed the suitors give them a comfortable place to rest and sleep. Telemachus thinks that the suitors are taking advantage of them because they are taking everything in the …show more content…

After Telemachus tells Athena why he is not strong enough: “But the man- if they caught sight of him home in Ithaca, by god, they’d all pray to be faster on their feet

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