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Athena finds Telemachus in Sparta and warns him that the suitors are planning to kill him. He leaves Helen and Menelaus and returns to Pylos, then sails for Ithaca.
Eumaeus tells the beggar his own story: he was kidnapped as a child and sold to Laertes. Telemachus lands at Ithaca and goes to the swineherd’s hut. Father and son are in the same room, but neither knows the other yet.
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But Pallas Athena went to spacious Lacedaemon to remind the glorious son of great-hearted Odysseus of his return, and to hasten his coming. — Homer, Odyssey XV.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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