Sunday, February 10, 2008

Book 3: The Lord of the Western Approaches


Today my loyal crew and I traveled to Pylos in a desperate attempt to find out more behind my father's mysterious disappearance from Nestor, the king of the city. To my great disappointment, the legendary king had no further details on my father. However I did uncover something regarding the warrior Agamemnon, a friend of his. Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus got into and arguement,and according to Nestor, Menelaus left the island for Greece, whereas Agamemnon decided to remain on the island. Although Agamemnon did return home to Troy, when he arrived he found that his wife had married another Trojan warrior, Aegisthus. But this was not the end of a string of unfortunate events for Agamemnon. Apparently having Agamemnon's wife was not enough, for Aegisthus then murdered Agamemnon and attepted to take over his kingdom!!! Hearing this story from the wise king of Pylos, I have now become increasingly worried about my father, and have several pressing questions I would like answered. For example, why would Agamemnon leave Odysseus on the island if they were friends? Or perhaps something had happened to my father and his presence would have been too much of a burden for Agamemnon...or what if the two had a falling out like Agamemnon and Menelaus? Tomorrow we plan to head to Sparta, in search of more clues, and hopefully, with the help of Nestor's son Peisistratos, we will find some!

Thats all for now

-Telemekhos

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