Telemachus was still a child when his father went to the Trojan War, and in his almost twenty years of absence he grew to become an adult. After the gods in assembly had decided that Odysseus should return home from the island of Ogygia, Athena, assuming the appearance of Mentes, king of the Taphians, went to Ithaca and advised Telemachus to expel the annoying suitors from his house. from his mother and went to Pylos and Sparta in order to gather information about his father.2​

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