Setting - market-place of Ithaca, Telemachos' house, Odysseus' storehouse, the beach, the ship.
Characters - Telemachos, the criers, Athena, Aigyptios, Eurynomos, Peisenor, the Councillor, Antinoos, Zeus and his eagles, Halitherses Mastorides, Eurymachos, Mentor, Leocritos Euenorides, the wooers, Eurycleia, Penelopeia, boat crew.
First speech, Aigyptos - He tells everyone to shut up and listen to Telemachos.
Second speech, Telemachos - He says he has no business to talk about there except his own private needs. He explains the current situation with his mother and the suitors and tells them he wants them to leave because they won't ask her father for a proper proposal, eat all of his animals, and won't go away. Telemachos says he would defend himself if he could and that the men should be ashamed and fearful of the gods.
Third speech, Antinoos - He says that Telemachos has a ad temper and is blaming them for something thats not their fault. Antinoos says that the problem is Penelopeia's fault for tricking the nation for almost four years. She's been weaving a shroud for Laertes and said she'd pick a husband when shes done weaving it, but she unravels it every night. Once they discovered what shes doing she is forced to finish the shroud. He tells Telemachos to send his mother out of the house and make her marry somebody. Antinoos says that Athena has blessed her because Penelopeia is beautiful and clever, but she used her cleverness to trick them. He tells Telemachos that the suitors will not leave.
Fourth speech, Telemachos - He says he can't send his mom away because she bore and raised him and because he can't pay back the dowry to Icarios. Her dad will be bad enough, but she'll call down the Avengers on Telemachos. He says that if they think its right for these men to take his stuff, then they can go ahead, but he will ask Zeus for vengeance.
Fifth speech, Halitherses Mastorides - After the eagle thing, he says there will be trouble from Odysseus for anyone who tries to marry his wife and that there will trouble for anyone else who lives on Ithaca. He wants to talk about how to stop the men. He talks about how he previously made a prophecy about Odysseus that came true. His prophecy was that Odysseus would go to war, lose everything, and then come home 20 years later.
Sixth speech, Eurymachos - He rebukes Halitherses Mastorides and say that he can prophesy better than him in this case. He says that not every bird is an omen and that Odysseus is dead. He wishes Halitherses had died to so he wouldn't be talking like he knows what God wants and anger Telemachos. He says he expects that Halitherses is going to get some sort of gift from Telemachos later for saying all these things. If Halitherses continues cajoling Telemachos then Telemachos will be the first to suffer and Halitherses will pay. He says that the suitors won't leave because theres no one there to scare them off so Telemachos should just get his mom to marry one of them.
Seventh speech, Telemachos - He says that he has nothing more to say to the suitors because the gods and everyone else knows what he wants already. He wants to borrow a fast ship and twenty men to get him to Sparta and Pylos. He wants to find out about his father there. He says that if his father is alive, he'll wait for him, but if hes dead then he'll give him a funeral and give his mother away to a suitor.
Eighth speech, Mentor - Hes being sarcastic when he says that everyone should just be mean to each other and never kind and gentle and that noble Odysseus never ruled any of them like a kind father. He says he doesn't grudge all the people who are taking advantage of the house of Odysseus, but they're going to be sorry because they think he'll never come back. He is ashamed of the ones who are quiet and don't try to get rid of the suitors.
Ninth speech, Leocritos Euenorides - He says that Mentor is crazy and just wants to cause trouble. There are too many suitors for them to drive away, even if Odysseus came back he wouldn't be able to fight them off. He says that what Mentor says is backwards and everybody should just leave. He says Mentor and Halitherses should help Telemachos with his voyage, but they'll have to wait a long time for news because Telemachos will never complete the voyage.
The book ends with Telemachos, Athena, and his crew sailing.
Book II is the start of Telemachos' voyage. It also foreshadows the future conflict with Odysseus and the suitors.
I predict that Telemachos will find his dad and bring him home. I also predict that all the suitors will be killed.
