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The Journey Of Telemachus’s Manhood Telemachus is the son of Odysseus and Penelope. After twenty years of his father’s absence, Telemachus is advised to seek out information as to his fathers whereabouts, which he does in the courts of his fathers' friends: Menelaus and Nestor. Although Telemachus is just a boy when we are introduced to his character, he makes the transition from a boy into a man, and that man is one …

…Telemachus proves that he is a great warrior to himself and to his father. At the end of The Odyssey Telemachus has reached a point in his life that will allow him to carry on the line of his father without disgracing him. Throughout the story Telemachus ages and matures and finally becomes a man that his father is proud of. The flourishing of Telemachus provides the knowledge that he is Odysseus’s rightful son.