Book XV · Episode 2 of 4
Omens on the Road
Omens and a seer mark the journey
Scenes
- Eagle and Prophecy — Helen reads the eagle omen as return
- Menelaus sends greetings to Nestor
- Wishes he could greet his father too
- Eagle sweeps past clutching a tame goose
- The travelers watch, heartened by the sign
- Foretells vengeance on the suitors soon
- Journey to Pylos — Telemachus reaches Pylos, avoids Nestor
- Lodges overnight at Diocles’s house in Pherae
- Dreads delay from Nestor’s hospitality
- Peisistratus turns the chariot to shore
- Unloads Menelaus’s gifts into the ship
- Urges him to embark right away
- Melampus’s Line — Peisistratus leaves, poet traces Melampus
- Telemachus pours an offering to Athena
- A fugitive stranger seeks passage aboard
- Melampus escaped bondage under Phylacus
- Amphiaraus dies at Thebes through betrayal
- Polyphides now the foremost living prophet
- Theoclymenus Taken Aboard — Fugitive Theoclymenus begs passage aboard
- Invokes the offering, asks Telemachus’s name
- Telemachus names himself as Odysseus’ son
- Confesses to killing a kinsman in Argos
- Flees the dead man’s avenging brothers
- He broods over the risk of ambush