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Menelaus encourages him with news that Odysseus may be alive and held captive by a goddess-nymph named Calypso. Athena keeps the prince alive by helping him avoid an ambush set up by the suitors on his return trip to Ithaca. During this voyage Telemachus becomes a man.   

Upon his return home, Athena informs Telemachus of the ambush that was planned by the suitors, this advice helps Telemacus avoid being killed.  But to Telemacus surprise his father had returned to claim his home and kingdom from the suitors.  Telemacus and Odysseus destroy all the suitors and rid his home of the ones that had portrayed him in his absence.  The valiant way Telemacus fought, earned the respect of his father.