Odyssey Study Guide Contents
Book 3: Telemachus visits Nestor | Summary | Notes | Major Characters | Quiz on Book III
- Athena - a war goddess who especially favors Odysseus and other heroes. Athena is on the side of the Greeks.
Known as Minerva among the Romans and in some translations of the Iliad. - Telemachus - Son of Odysseus who was left as a baby when Odysseus went off 20 years earlier to fight in the Trojan War.
- Nestor - from Gerenia in Messenia. King of Pylos. Nestor joined the Trojan War with his sons Antilochus and Thrasymedes. Nestor is old, but well-respected.
- Agamemnon - lead king of the Greek forces, the brother of Menelaus, husband of Clytemnestra. Orestes is his son.
- Menelaus - king of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon. When Menelaus married Helen, a promise was extracted from all the rejected suitor-princes that they would come to the aid of Menelaus should anyone try to abduct her.
- Mentor - A friend of Odysseus, left in charge in Ithaca.
- Pisistratus - Youngest son of Nestor. Younger brother of Trojan War fighters Antilochus and Thrasymedes. Pisistratos accompanies Telemachus on his journey.
