Summary
Telemachus arrives at Pylos during a sacrifice to Poseidon. Nestor welcomes him, remembers Odysseus, and tells the story of the Achaean returns, including the quarrel between Agamemnon and Menelaus.
Nestor does not know whether Odysseus is alive. He advises Telemachus to go to Sparta and ask Menelaus, who has recently returned from Egypt. Athena, as Mentor, accompanies the journey and disappears after a sacrifice, revealing her divinity.
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And now the sun, leaving the beauteous mere, sprang up into the brazen heaven to give light to the immortals and to mortal men on the earth, the giver of grain; and they came to Pylos, the well-built citadel of Neleus. — Homer, Odyssey III.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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