The Truth Is Revealed!

At last! The information I have been searching for! I arrived in the new town to meet Menelaos and his wife Helen for any news of my father. They were celebrating two weddings when I arrived. One was for the marriage of their son, and the other of their daughter. They kindly greated us and Menelaos saw a similarity between me and my father like Nestor had. They had us join them for a lovely feast. Helen and Menelaos seemed to know a lot about my father during the times of war. During the Trojan war he was apart of the sneaking in of the Trojan horse that the Trojans foolishly accepted and the Greeks had an amazing victory. I loved hearing the stories of my father. They made me feel as if I know him better. I really don't know anything about my father or what kind of man he is and I really want to know. I've had this feeling sometime when I think that just having my mother as a parent is not enough and I feel like a whole other part of me is missing or hidden because of my father's absence. The next day, Menelaos reminized about his times in the war and when he was stranded in Egypt. He was forced to capture the Old Man of the Sea, Proteus. Proteus gave Menelaos directions on how to return to Sparta. Then he told me what I was waiting for. He told me of the truth about what happened to my father! He was alive! I was so pleased with the news! He was imprisoned by Calypso on her island. So I started on my way back to Pylos to return to Ithaka by ship. A hero is someone who has done great things but how many great things must you do to be a hero? Can you do one noble thing that benefits a few to be considered a hero? Am I a hero?

And The Journey Continues...

Wow have I had an eventful day! I just can't keep it to myself! First, me and my crew landed on the sandy beach of the city of Pylos. Me and my mentor, Athena, got off of our ship and approached the people on the shore. They were having a major sacrificing ritual to Posiedon, god of the sea, on the beach! They slaughtered numerous bulls. At first, I was very nervous to approach the civilians seeing as I am very new to this sort of thing but Athena lifted my spirits and gave me the self confidence I needed. As they realized that we were strangers on their homeland they welcomed us to pray with them and eat with them. That was a good sign that we were very welcomed there. It was a very marvelous meal and a very wholesome prayer by Athena. After the meal, Nestor, the man we had been looking for to supply us with information concerning my father, asked us who we were. We explained to him that we were on the search for the whereabouts of my father. He was a good friend of Odyseuss and thought I was very much like him. This was comforting to me because I don't remember my father and having an old friend of his telling me we were similar was comforting. I had found the man I needed to speak with and of course I was dying for my info! So Nestor, such a good man, took a very long time to recall the battles of Troy and times with my father and the other men he fought beside in the horrible war. But even one of Odyseuss's old friends doesn't know where he is and to me it seemed like I was back at square one but Nestor suggested that I go talk to Menelaos of Lakedaimon. He thinks that maybe he will know more about my father. I thanked him so much for his information even though it wasn't was I was looking for but I will not give up. Nestor found out that Athena was the goddess Athena and what a shock that was to him. He got everyone to participate in a wonderful sacrificing of a cow. He refused that I spend the night on my ship so I slept at his place where I slave bathed me and treated me like a god. It must be because I walk among one. That night, I was escorted to a car where I was taken out of Pylos for the rest of my adventure. I feel as if the farther I get away from home and my life before as a child the more knowledge I am learning about my father. I has really been a great experience so far I'm just now concerned what else I am expected to give up to gain things, like my father, in the future. Also on this journey, I have discovered that yoyu must put all of your trust into anyone who can help you even though in the end they might not be trustworthy. But I feel you must try to trust these strangers for the greater good of finding my father. The ends justify the means for me and if putting faith into people I barely know is a mean for me, then I hope the end will be worth it.

All Aboard!

Hello again my blog readers. I have so very much to tell you. Let us begin my newest drama with the suitors. I am destined to go on this mission to find my father but those annoying suitors were of no help to me! I asked them for my help on my voyage to seek the whereabouts of my father and they all denied me of their assistance at first and resisted against me. Personally, I thought they were all being very rude to me after I have let them take advantage of my land, my resources and my mother. I do not like those suitors one little bit. All they do is kill my livestock and give me no respect. They told me stories about how my mother has been tempting them for years and I was appalled at this. So, I told those suitors that if they don't help me then they are no longer welcome here at my house. Later, while I was praying, Mentor came to me and told me to not give up on myself and push harder to get what I want and to continue with my mission to find my father. Everyone has been noticing a change in me and I think I have just finally realized how important I can be on this Earth and have grown up. People are always just walking over me and babying me and I hate it now. I have this new goal that I want to accomplish but I still need help. Mentor came to me again late one night and told me that the suitors had agreed! I guess I must have straightened them out, but I'm sure Athena, the great grey-eyed goddess had a little to do with it. But now me and my crew are on our way to hear the long anticipated rumors or my father. Sometimes you need to leave a lot behind, yourself, your family, and everything you once knew to get to a better tomorrow. I understand this more than my mother or my nurse but I am now realizing why I have forgiven Odyseuss for not being in my life for so long. He had to leave that all behind for that better tomorrow and I am ready to follow in his footsteps.

My New Mission!

Hello, I am Telemokhas and this is my first blog post. First of all I'm from the Greek Isle Ithaka and a very important person there. My father, Odysseus, who is the rightful king, has been missing for about nineteen years. I have been maintaining life here and taking care of my mother who continues to wait for my father. Plenty of suitors ask for her hand in marriage but she refuses. Recently, Athena, the grey-eyed goddess from Mount Olympus, joined me for a meal. I knew she was a goddess when I met her and I was very excited to hear the news she would bring me. She spoke to me of my father. She believed that he was not dead and just being held captive on an island somewhere trying to escape. She instructed me to get my men and ask if there had been rumors of my father's whereabouts. If he is alive, I must wait a year for his arrival. If he is dead, I must give my mother to another husband and honor his death. I would really love it if Odysseus was to come home and I know my mother would be most pleased. And if I hear he is dead, I will be sad but then be able to help my mother and myself move on and continue with our lives here in Ithaka. Maybe I could finally take official position as the king. That would be fantastic! Finally I could get the rightful respect I deserve. I will do whatever Athena and the other gods instruct me to do if it means finding the truth of my father. If the gods tell you to do something, you must do as you're told. If Athena tells me to go look for my father and wait for his return than I shall and if I find out he is no longer alive I will do as told and respect him and move on with my life. I know now though that I am very excited for my upcoming journey's to find out what condition my father is in.