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TELEMACHY

(Education)

JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2011

… the pretext for Telemachus’ journey is the inquiry about his father; but for Athena, who advises it, the aim is education. The son would not have become worthy of his father had he not heard from his father’s companions about his deeds; he knows how to behave toward his father on the basis of the stories that he has heard about him.

—Ancient commentator on Odyssey, 1.284 (“Go first to Pylos and question godlike Nestor”)