Episode 1, The Odyssey

Summery

• The narrator explains where Odysseus is and sort of how he got there. 
• The gods are called to a meeting and Athena brings up Odysseus.
• They chose to let Odysseus go home and that Athena would go to Ithaca and lead his son to see the world and ask about his father.
• Athen went to Telemachos looking like someone else and he welcomed her with the up most hospitality. They told each other who the other one was and where they cam from. 
• When Telemachos told Athena about the suitors who wanted to marry his mother, Penelope, and she was not very happy at all. She told him to go out and ask people about his father and go see if people knew him. 
• Telemachos told all of the suitors to go home and sleep in their own beds, witch they did, and he was going to leave in the morning. 
• Telemachos had a meeting with the suitors and told them that they could marry his mother and they all need to go away because they are eating all of his food and they are annoying. They said when his mother chooses a husband, then they will all leave. 
• They go to Nestor, and ask hod of he knows anything about the current status of Odysseus. he didn't have any news of his father because after the falling of Troy, they split up. He prays for Telemachos and says he should reclaim the honor of his father, as Agamemnon's son did for him.
• Then, nestor explained hoe Agamemnon died, and how his son avenged his death, and that Telemachos should use that as an example.
• He send his son and Telemachos to Sparta and they will go in the morn.
• When they get to Sparta, the king and queen were having weddings got their daughter and son. Pisistratus and telemachos are welcomed and then Telemachos is soon recognized as the son of Odysseus because of the obvious resemblance.  As they feast they share stories of Odysseus. Then, Telemachos was informed that Odysseus is still alive, but stranded on Calypso's island. They plan to sail back to Ithaca. 
• Back in Ithaca, the suitor caught word of Telemachos's return and they plan to ambush him. Penelope hears about this and can't bare the thought of losing her son and her husband. Then, Athena comes to her in the form of her sister, and reassures her that everything will be ok. 

Characters

• Telemachos
• Odysseus 
• Penelope
• Athena/ Mentor
• Nestor
• Agamemnon
• Antanoos
• Aigyptios
• Eurtmachos
• Menelaos
• Tendeos
• Aigisthos
• Clytaimnestra

Themes

• Loyalty
• Hopsitatily
• Arrogance]
• The coming of age.