[Music] book one of The Odyssey begins at the top of Mount Olympus where Zeus the god of gods consults with his favorite child Athena about whether or not she and Hermes should get involved in Odus life meaning he's stranded his family's in Ithaca and terrible things have befallen them and deciding whether or not they should intercede or get involved and help them out and it establishes a really important theme that the gods are watching out for us after a long discussion it's finally decided that Athena and Hermes will get involved in helping odyusa not so pretty basically Penelope odys is estranged wife refuses is to give up hope that her husband isn't going to come home meanwhile these suitors about 108 of them including their servants and the family's turncoat servants have taken up residence in their palace drinking all the wine eating all the food and generally causing Mayhem they say hey Penelope's royalty she's available and we're going to wait around until she picks one of us that's hospitality and that's the custom now telemus who hasn't seen his father since he was a baby is 20 years old now odys is left home 20 years ago to fight in the Trojan War and 10 years ago he began his journey home now in Disguise Athena comes down and meets with telemus but with but oversees him conferencing with the suitors telling them it's time for them to go it's finally time for him to step up and take a stand to move forward get these suitors out of the house find his father and bring him home and reunite his parents and their Kingdom meanwhile Penelope holed up in her room is working on a Death Shroud for OD deus's aging father leres she holds on to that little bit of Hope another important theme in the book for homecoming to happen for justice to be restored and for things to become the way they were she works on this shroud but undoes her work every single night why because the custom is when that shroud is finished she needs to pick one of the suitors and the suitors are hold holding out hope but that's going to happen the book establishes some really important themes not just about fate and the gods and about Fathers and Sons but about Hospitality that these suitors are allowed to just come in pal around and generally live at the palace doing whatever they want because they are guests and it also establishes another theme Justice we see that so much has gone wrong and that odys is going to need to come home to set it right [Music]