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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Critical Biography; Biographicalsketches; 1. Book I: Telemachus and Mentor, in search of Ulysses, arrive onthe island of Calypso. The nymph is still bemoaning the departure of Ulysses;2. Book II: Telemachus' account of Sesostris' wise rule in Egypt; 3. BookIII: Telemachus' tale of the cruelties of Pygmalion and Astarbe at Tyre; 4.Book IV: Mentor reproves Telemachus for too easily falling under Calypso'sspell. Telemachus continues his narrative; 5. Book V: The story of Idomeneus,king of Crete, who kills his son and is banished. Mentor refuses the Cretanthrone; 6. Book VI: Telemachus falls in love with the nymph Eucharis, butMentor tears him away from Calypso's island; Venus and Cupid are furious; 7.Book VII: Telemachus and Mentor learn of the violent deaths of Pygmalion andAstarbe. Adoam describes the simplicity of the pastoral land of Betique; 8.Book VIII: Telemachus and Mentor are tricked by Venus into landing atSalente, the new city of the exiled Idomeneus. Salente prepares for waragainst the Mandurians; 9. Book IX: Idomeneus describes the founding ofSalente, the cause of the war with the Mandurians, and his grief in findingNestor (hero of the Trojan war) on the opposing side; 10. Book X: Mentoracquaints himself with Salente and instructs Idomeneus in the art ofgoverning. He stresses peace, agriculture, and disinterestedness, and thesuppression of luxury; 11. Book XI: Idomeneus tells Mentor of his betrayal bythe self-loving Protesilaus, and of the latter's efforts to ruin the virtuousand honest Philocles; 12. Book XII: Telemachus, in the camp of Idomeneus'allies, gains the good will of Philoctetes (who had been on bad terms withUlysses). Philoctetes gives an account of the death of Hercules; 13. BookXIII: Telemachus' quarrel with Hippias; the king of the Daunians attacks theforces of Idomeneus and the allies. Death and funeral rites of Hippias; 14.Book XIV: Telemachus descends into the infernal regions in search of Ulysses.There, in the Elysian fields, he sees the after-life of just kings. He meetsthe shade of this great-grandfather, who reveals that Ulysses still lives;15. Book XV: Telemachus defeats the enemies of Idomeneus and his allies, andvanquishes the treacherous Adastrus (who had killed the son of Nestor); 16.Book XVI: Telemachus refuses to divide the lands of the vanquished Daunians,and lets them choose a good king from their own numbers; 17. Book XVII:Telemachus returns to Salente to discover Mentor's austere reforms in place:the city no longer overwhelms the countryside. Telemachus falls in love withAntiope, the virtuous daughter of Idomeneus; 18. Book XVIII: DespiteIdomeneus' pleas, Telemachus and Mentor leave Salente. Mentor gives his finaladvice about good government to Telemachus, then reveals himself to Minerva,goddess of wisdom. Telemachus returns to Ithaca, where he finds his recentlyreturned father, Ulysses; Index.