After a conversation, Telemachus encounters Penelope in the suitors’ quarters, upset over a song that the court bard is singing. Penelope is more miserable than she usually is. Telemachus reminds her that Odysseus isn’t the only Greek to not return from Troy and that, if she doesn’t like the music in the men’s quarters she should retire to her own 'chamber' and let him look after her interests among the suitors. He then gives the suitors notice that he will hold an assembly the next day at which they will be ordered to leave his father’s estate. Antinous and Eurymachus, two particularly defiant suitors dont like this news and ask the identity of the visitor with whom he has just been speaking. Although Telemachus suspects that his visitor was a goddess in disguise, he tells them only that the man was a friend of his father.
My personaly response to this is that Telemachus is taking command of his household and doing everything he can to make everything in order. He calms Penelope down and takes care of the suitors as he is told by Zeus and Athena. He takes command of Antinous and Eurymachus and pursuades them to leave. Time will tell if they do listen to him and follow his orders. Except from the begining this book right now is mostly about Telemachus and what he is doing and how he is listening to Zeus and Athena the God and Goddess.
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