Departure from Pylos (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book III – Part 17)

The rites are completed, the guest is honored, and the journey continues beyond Pylos.

In this passage from The Odyssey, Telemachus is bathed and anointed by Polycaste, the youngest daughter of Nestor, and emerges renewed and splendidly clothed. After the sacrificial feast is finished, Nestor orders his sons to yoke the finest horses for Telemachus’ onward journey. Provisions are packed into the chariot, and Telemachus departs with Peisistratus at the reins. They travel swiftly across the plains, rest for the night at Pherae in the house of Diocles, and at dawn resume their course, pressing on through fertile country until night falls again.

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