Book II

Setting: market-place of Ithaca, Telemachos' house, the boat, Odysseus storehouse, beach

Characters: Telemachos, criers, Athena, Aigyptios, Eurynomos, Peisenor, Councillor, Antinoos, Zeus, eagles sent by Zeus, Halitherses Mastorides, Eurymachos, Mentor, Leocritos Euenorides, wooers, Eurycleia (Nanny), Penelopeia, boat crew

Speeches:
Aigyptios: Tells everyone to shut up and listen to Telemachos because he has called them there. Also, to thank Telemachos for calling the first meeting of the council in 20 years.
Telemachos: He says he has no real business to talk about at the council except his own private needs, which is why he called the meeting. He explains the situation with his mother and her suitors. He wants them to leave because they won't ask her father for a proper proposal and they've been eating all his food and not leaving them alone for years. He says he would defend himself if he could, but he needs help. He says the men should be ashamed and fearful of the gods.
Antinoos: He says that Telemachos has a bad temper and is blaming them for something that isn't their fault. He says it's Penelopeia's fault. She's been tricking the nation for almost four years. She's been weaving a shroud for Laertes for when he dies. She said she'd pick a husband when she's done weaving it, but she unravels it every night. Once they discovered what she was doing she was forced to finish the shroud. He says Telemachos should send his mother out of the house and make her marry somebody. Athena has been generous to her above all others because she's the most beautiful woman as well as clever, but she's used her cleverness to trick them. He tells Telemachos that the suitors won't leave as long as Penelopeia keeps the mind she has now.
Telemachos: He can't send his mother away because she bore and raised him. He also can't pay back all the dowry to Icarios. Her dad will be bad enough, but she'll call down the Avengers on Telemachos if he sends her away. If they think it's right for these men to eat all his food and take his things, they can go ahead but he'll ask Zeus to help him get vengeance on them.
Halitherses: There will be trouble from dead Odysseus for anyone who tries to marry his wife. There would also be trouble lots of other people of Ithaca. He wants to talk about how to stop the men. 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.
Eurymachos: He rebukes Halitherses and says that he can prophesy better than Halitherses in this case. Not every bird is a bird of omen and that Odysseus is dead. He wishes Halitherses had died too and that he wouldn't be here trying to talk 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 the the first to suffer and Halitherses will have to pay. He says that the suitors won't leave because there's no one there to scare them off so Telemachos should just get his mom to marry one of them.
Telemachos: he has nothing more to say to the suitors because the gods and everyone 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 he's dead then he'll give him a funeral and give his mother away to a suitor.
Mentor: He's being sarcastic when he says that everyone should be mean to each other and never kind and gentle and that noble Odysseus never rule them like a kind father. He says he doesn't grudge all the people who have taken advantage of the house of Odysseus, but they're going to be sorry because they think he'll never come back. He says that he's ashamed of the ones who are quiet and don't try to get rid of the suitors.
Leocritos: He says that Mentor is crazy and just wants to cause trouble. There's too many suitors for them to drive away. Even if Odysseus came back, he wouldn't be able to fight them all off. He says that what Mentor says is backwards and everybody should just leave. He says that Mentor and Halitherses should help Telemachos with his voyage, but that they'll be waiting a while for news because Telemachos will never actually complete the voyage.

This book ends on the boat with Telemachos, Athena, and the crew sailing away.

Book II is important because it is the start of Telemachos' voyage. It also foreshadows the future conflict with Odysseus and the suitors.

Predictions: Telemachos will find his dad and bring him home, meaning the council of men will be ashamed for not helping. I also predict that all the suitors will die.