Other key characters are Nestor and Menelaus, the king of Pylos and king of Sparta respectively, who fought beside Odysseus and encounter Telemachus during the story. The Odyssey follows its title ...

What follows is often called the “Telemachy”—the first four books of The Odyssey—in which the son embarks on his own journey of discovery. He meets Nestor in Pylos and Menelaus in Sparta ...