Odyssey II · The Assembly in Ithaca

Telemachus calls the assembly and denounces the suitors’ consumption of his household. Antinous blames Penelope’s trick and demands that she choose a husband.

Telemachus refuses to force his mother out of the house and asks for a ship. Athena, as Mentor, promises help. At night Telemachus takes supplies from the storeroom and sails with a crew, while Penelope sleeps.

Soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy-fingered, up from his bed arose the dear son of Odysseus and put on his clothing. About his shoulder he slung his sharp sword, and beneath his shining feet bound his fair sandals, [5] and went forth from his chamber like a god to look upon. — Homer, Odyssey II.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).