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Telemachus reaches Sparta and finds Menelaus celebrating the marriages of his children. Helen recognizes Telemachus at once, and the couple’s memories of Troy mix hospitality with grief.
Menelaus tells how he captured the sea-god Proteus in Egypt and learned that Odysseus was alive on Calypso’s island. Meanwhile, in Ithaca, Antinous learns that Telemachus has sailed and plans to ambush him on the way home. Penelope is told and is terrified.
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And they came to the hollow land of Lacedaemon with its many ravines, and drove to the palace of glorious Menelaus. Him they found giving a marriage feast to his many kinsfolk for his noble son and daughter within his house. — Homer, Odyssey IV.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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