odyssey father and son between odysseus and telemachus
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A father and a son. Think of that phrase. What do you picture in your head when you hear that? Probably you picture them playing baseball or the father teaching the son how to drive or them going to fishing. There is a very special friendship between a father and a son. They share the same ideas, same emotions, even sometimes the same opinion. In the Odyssey, Odysseus and Telemachus are exactly like this in the area of emotion.
In book IV Menelaus tells the story of Odysseus. He speaks of how "No Achaean met the contests that Odysseus met and won." He also tells how Odysseus was a hero and that Odysseus' family, "Old Laeretes, steadfast Penelope, and Telemachus mourn for him...