When Telemachus wakes
up at the beginning of the book, "marvelous was the grace Athena cast about him," and
people cannot take their eyes off of him as he walks toward them. She makes Telemachus appear in
more princely and impressive than he already was, and he benefits from this treatment by seeming
to be more authoritative and powerful.
Later, Telemachus goes to the
shore, and he prays to Athena and expresses his upset that the Achaeans do not follow her
commands. She then comes to him in the shape of Mentor, and she promises that, if he is like his
brave father, the voyage to find his father will "not be vain and fruitless." On the
other hand, if he is not his mother's and father's son in terms of his character and courage,
then she has little hope of his voyage succeeding. She tells Telemachus to pay no...
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