Setting- Marketplace, house, storehouse, and beach in Ithaca, ten years after the Trojan War
Characters- Telemachos, Athena, Aigyptios, criers, Peisenor, Antinoos, Penelopeia, the pair of eagles, Halistherses Mastorides, Eurymachos, Mentor, Leocrites Eunorides, wooers, Eurycleia, the men that help sail his ship, Zeus
Outline the speeches- Telemachos speech was asking for the councilmen to take away their sons from his mom. He wants them stop eating all his food and drinking all his wine. Antinoos tells him to hold his temper and et his mom get married again. Aigyptos tells the member to help him. Mastorides says that Odysseus is still alive. Eurymachos says the birds mean nothing and that Odysseus is dead. Telemachos asks for a ship and some men to go look for his father. Mentor says they shouldnt look for Odysseus. Leocrites says Mentor is mad and Odysseus would be ashamed of his people if he came back to them. Athena tell telemachos that he is like his dad.
Where does the book end- Telemachos and his men are about to leave on the boat.
Why is this book important?- It shows that the people of Ithaca no longer care about Odysseus and think he is dead.
2 predictions- the council men will get killed by Odysseus and the wooers will be chased away only to come back and kill Odysseus.