Why did Telemachus leave his mother Penelope to cope with the difficulties of their home and guests and
sail off into the nearly unknown?
Minerva convinced him that unless he searched for his father, Ulysses would never be able to come back to Ithaca.
Telemachus was greatly discouraged by the insults of the suitors and longed to show he had developed into a mature man
He hoped that this journey would lead him to his long-lost father and help him claim in his own name to be a hero.
He felt the tedium of staying by his mother at home, even though he knew she needed him,
