Homer, Chapter 13: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Nestor welcomes Telemachus at Pylos, recounts the divided fleet’s departure from Troy, and tells of Agamemnon’s murder and Orestes’ revenge.
2. Minerva reveals her divine nature by flying away as an eagle, and Nestor sends Telemachus toward Sparta with Pisistratus.
3. Menelaus welcomes the travellers during wedding celebrations, and Helen recognizes Telemachus through his resemblance to Ulysses.
4. Helen adds a grief-soothing drug to the wine, and the next morning Menelaus reports Ulysses’ captivity using knowledge gained from Proteus.
5. Telemachus declines Menelaus’s horses because Ithaca lacks suitable ground, while Antinous prepares to intercept him at sea.
6. Medon tells Penelope about the plot, and Minerva sends a dream that comforts her about Telemachus.

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