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Often appears with: wedding ceremony · royal hospitality · marriage and betrothal · hospitality and the guest · horse provisioning for travelers · festivals, games, and spectacle · arrivals at royal court
Usually: narrative (1) · wonder (1)
Telemachus and Pisistratus arrive in Lacedaemon, are welcomed into Menelaus’s palace for the wedding of his daughter to Achilles’ son, and receive prompt hospitality as servants prepare their horses and supper.
THE VISIT TO KING MENELAUS, WHO TELLS HIS STORY—MEANWHILE THE SUITORS IN ITHACA PLOT AGAINST TELEMACHUS. they reached the low lying city of Lacedaemon, where they drove straight to the abode of Menelaus36 [and found him in his own house, feasting with his many clansmen in honour of the wedding of his son, and also of his daughter, whom he was marrying to the son of that valiant warrior Achilles. He had given his con…