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while Odysseus is making his connections with Eumaeus

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Athena tells Telemachus to get going

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appears to him in a dream

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gods in dreams often came as hovering pretense

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a standard feature of how epic poetry works

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Homer understands that dreams come in the middle of the night and a god or goddess will take a particular form, hover over a persons head, and say, hey, why are you asleep, you have all this stuff to worry about

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a turning point for Telemachus [tah-LEM-mah-kus]

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takes off to Ithaca

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meets Theoclymenus [thee-oh-CLIGH-men-us]

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running away from his home town

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wants passage to Ithaca

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Telemachus takes him with him on his ship

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startling for readers because Theoclymenus is a murderer

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in Homeric times, the idea of having a blood guilt because you killed someone and therefore were an exile

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didn't mean you were a crazed murder

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often times such a person was seen as an aristocrat who got into an argument with another aristocrat and they came to a duel, and one had to kill the other, which was tough luck for both of them

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name Theoclymenus

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"Theo" = god, "clymenus" = hear

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can read signs

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stranger from the outside world

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sense of spookiness: "careful, strangers might come from Zeus"

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Eumaeus

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making connection with Odysseus

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Odysseus listens to his story

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is gathering information about his home and how it has changed since he left

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getting prepared

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Telemachus is on his way back

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will start a series of reunions