1. STARTING IN ITHACA

2. Personally Telemachos is the future king of Ithaca. Odysseus has been gone for 20 years, Telemachos has yet to meet his own father. Telemachos is wholly devoted to his mother and to maintaining his father’s estate

3. Geographically Telemachos was born and raised in Ithaca Ithaca is an island of the west coast of Greece

4. Culturally The goddess Athena takes on the form of both mentor and mentes to help Telemachos through his journey