Book III · Episode 2 of 5
Nestor’s War Story
Nestor tells of quarrel, heroes’ homecomings
Scenes
- Nestor Questions the Guests — Telemachus begs Nestor for Odysseus news
- Nestor asks if they are pirates
- Athena emboldens Telemachus to speak
- He sailed from Ithaca seeking answers
- Odysseus was Nestor’s comrade at Troy
- Telemachus recalls a wartime promise kept
- The Fleet’s Quarrel — Nestor recalls Atreus brothers’ quarrel
- Nestor’s own son Antilochus died there
- He praises Odysseus’ unmatched cunning
- Athena’s anger splits the Greek fleet
- Agamemnon hopes to appease the goddess
- Nestor and Diomedes catch a favorable gale
- Fates of the Heroes — Telemachus hears murder, longs for vengeance
- Achilles’ son returns home unharmed
- Philoctetes and Idomeneus also return safely
- Nestor calls him tall and noble
- Telemachus admires that vengeance’s wide fame
- Suitors plot evil and insult him