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In Book Two of Homerââ¬â¢s The Odyssey Telemakhos gains a significant amount :: Classics
In Book Two of Homers The Odyssey Telemakhos gains a epochal amount of confidence and decides to call an gather. At the fictionThe Odyssey In Book Two of Homers The Odyssey Telemakhos gains a signifi supporttamount of confidence and decides to call an assembly. At the assemblya shrewd man Aigyptios presents the listeners with a r be introduction.He states that an assembly has not occurred for nigh twenty years andcommends the individual that had the audacity to call one. At thisassembly Telemakhos protests fervently that his mothers suitors beexpelled since they have no comply and appreciation for theirgenerosity these men spend their days around our field killing ourbeeves and sheep and fatted goats , carousing , soaking up our gooddark wine, not caring what they do.At the end of Telemakhoss first betrothal to persuade the minds of theAkhaians against the suitors, a fellow leader named Antinoos decidesto defend his fellow suitors. Antinoos counteracts Telemakhous claims comm unicate everyone that the suitors should not be criticized sincePenelope is the one to blame you should know the suitors are not toblame but it is your own dear incomparably finesse mother .Hefurther adds that she has been deceiving them with her clever abilityto avoid any decisions close marriage and gives the example of herunwoven loom.The suitors then commands that Telemakhos takes immediate action and each evict Miss Penelope from the house or compel her to wed theman her beginner suggests. Telemakhos makes a firm stance against thesuitors suggestions and insists that he lead never turn his motherout.During Telemakhoss appeal to save his mother a pair of eagles appearsin the sky. Another heated up debate then rises between Halitherses andEurymakhos in which Halitherses argues that the sighting of eaglesforetells that Odysseus arrival is climb and that the suitors will facegrave danger if they dont leave, bit Eurymachus protests that thesighting of the birds are insignifi cant Bird life aplenty is found inthe sunny air, not all of it is significant.Telemakhos concludes that he is finished with appeals and will let theGods do the justice. All he desires is to locate a riotous ship and acrew of men to carry out a voyage and arrive at a conclusion about hisfather whereabouts If hes alive and beating his way home you clevernesshold out for another weary year..then I can come back to my own dearcountry and raise a mound for him..After the assembly Telemakhos feels a sense of defeat and decides to
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