Telemachus with Pisistratus arriving at Sparta, is hospitably received
by Menelaus to whom he relates the cause of his coming, and learns from
him many particulars of what befell the Greeks since the destruction of
Troy. He dwells more at large upon the prophecies of Proteus to him in
his return; from which he acquaints Telemachus that Ulysses is detained
in the island of Calypso.
In the meantime the suitors consult to destroy Telemachus on the voyage
home. Penelope is apprised of this; but comforted in a dream by Pallas,
in the shape of her sister Iphthima.