Athena tells Telemachus that he must return home at once because the suitors are taking over his house and his mom will soon be married without Telemachus' permission. She tells him that he must get permission to leave but he must leave at once. She also warns him that he is to take a different route home. He must make sure his ships stay far from shore and he is to visit Eumaeus and tell Penelope of his return. His ships are to continue to the mainland after he drops him off. This was all said to him in a dream and so when he wakes up he gets ready to leave soon. Telemachus declines the offers to prepare a big farewell party. As he is leaving he is offered many gifts to take with him. As he was ready to leave a eagle came down and snatched a goose. Helen says that this is an omen that when he gets home he will return to his house have revenge on the suitors. As he was leaving he met a stranger wanting to stow away on his ship. Telemachus trusts him and agrees.
The next day Odysseus is eating breakfast and tells Eumaeus that he will leave and go to town to beg. Maybe he can see Penelope and meet some of the suitors. Eumaeus says that he should not get mixed up with the suitors for they are mean and should not be mixed with. Breakfast goes on and they tell each other stories. Eumaeus tells of his childhood and how he came to be in Ithaca. He lived in a rich house, son of a king, when his nurse took him one night and stowed him away on a pirate ship. Toward the end of the story the pirates kill the nurse and sell him as a slave. Odysseus' father buys him and has treated him well ever since and treated him like a son.
Telemachus makes his men let him off so he can walk to Eumaeus' house just as Athena instructed. The rest of his men go on into shore with he stranger as the guide. As he is leaving the ship a eagle flies by with a dove. This is a good omen and Telemachus's house will be the most Kingly of the country.
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