![]() There they found Nestor sitting with his sons, while his company round him were busy getting dinner ready, and putting pieces of meat on to the spits while other pieces were cooking. She then went quickly on, and Telemachus followed in her steps till they reached the place where the guilds of the Pylian people were assembled. "Some things, Telemachus," answered Minerva, "will be suggested to you by your own instinct, and heaven will prompt you further for I am assured that the gods have been with you from the time of your birth until now." "But how, Mentor," replied Telemachus, "dare I go up to Nestor, and how am I to address him? I have never yet been used to holding long conversations with people, and am ashamed to begin questioning one who is so much older than myself." Beg of him to speak the truth, and he will tell no lies, for he is an excellent person." Presently she said, "Telemachus, you must not be in the least shy or nervous you have taken this voyage to try and find out where your father is buried and how he came by his end so go straight up to Nestor that we may see what he has got to tell us. Minerva led the way and Telemachus followed her. ![]() As they were eating the inward meats and burning the thigh bones in the name of Neptune, Telemachus and his crew arrived, furled their sails, brought their ship to anchor, and went ashore. ![]() There were nine guilds with five hundred men in each, and there were nine bulls to each guild. Now the people of Pylos were gathered on the sea shore to offer sacrifice of black bulls to Neptune lord of the Earthquake. Telemachus introduced himself while on the beach,as Gerinios Nestor, began narrating the epic battles who took place in front of the castle of King Priamos, expressing his admiration for the resourceful Odysseus.The end of this narration was about how each one returned safe to their homeland,after everyone went their own way.But as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of heaven to shed light on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the city of Neleus. Then, and only then, after eating and drinking, King Nestor asked to know who they were and where they came from. There in the sand, Athena wished Poseidon to always grace/favor with luck Nestor and the inhabitants of Pylos and the feast began until their souls were full of food and drink. The strangers were given rations/portions to eat and wine to drink as they then asked the mentor (the transformed Athena) to make the first wish. They even put them next to Nestor and Prince Thrashimidis. Once they saw the strangers, they didn't ask anything,just invited them to sit in their company. There they found Nestor with all his sons cooking the meat from sacrifice in order to eat. Nine rows of five hundred people each slaughtered nine Bulls offering sacrifice to Poseidon,as such image would certainly be quite impressive, something like voidokoilia during the fifteen of August, but instead of bathers, a crowd of 4,500 people with Nestor and his sons in the middle offering sacrifice to the God of the Sea.īy the time they were finished, the ship had arrived and Telemachus with Athena walked among the crowd. He arrives at dawn on the beach of Voidokilia (Voufrada) and finds the citizens of Pylos in the sandy beach. The first station of Telemachus was the kingdom of Nestor in the beautiful (as Homer mentions) Messinia. Telemachus, unable to control the situation with the suitors, leaves Ithaca looking for information about his lost father while accompanied by the goddess Athena who has taken the form of mentor, friend of Ulysses (Odysseus). The second Homeric saga/epic which follows the fall of Troy, the famous Odyssey, starts not with the adventures of the protagonist of Odysseus but with the consequences that his delay had on his son Telemachus.
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