Book One- Odyssey

The Gods go and have a meeting to discuss Odysseus how he is being held on the island called Pylos by a nymph; Calypso. The nymph told Odysseus that he can have immortal life because she wants him as her husband.
At the meeting the Gods decide that Odysseus is to be let go and he will make his way to his home. (Ithica).

In Ithica Telemachus and Penelope ( Odysseus' son and wife). Athena ( daughter of Zeus) goes and pretends to be one of Odysseus' old friends and tells Telemachus that he should get a crew and sail to every island looking for word of his father, because she heard he is still alive. Telemachus Ponders the idea of going but he wants to get rid of the slim ball suitors that have parties and are going after his mom.

Penelope doesn't like the suitors because she believes that Odysseus is still alive even though he has been gone for a long time. She leads the suitors on by saying that she is going to knit a Shaw. When she is knitting in the morning she undoes the stitches at night. So it takes her three years to do. Alas discovered what Penelope does with the Shaw and tells her that she better finish it or she will tell everyone and then her father will pick a suitor for her! (and if that happens her wealth and estate is his also).