In Homer's Odyssey, the goddess Athena appears to Telamachus and urges him to go to Sparta and Pylos to search for his father.

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According to Greek mythology and legend, Telemachus was the son of Penelope and Odysseus, a Trojan War hero whose return trip home took 10 years. In the epic, Odyssey, by the Greek poet Homer, the goddess Athena appears to Telamachus (as shown here in this 1918 illustration) and urges him to go to Sparta and Pylos to see if anyone at either place has any news about his father.

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