The scene from the Odyssey set in this palace
is the visit of Odysseus’ son Telemachus, who has come from his home island of Ithaca (Ithaki in Greek) to seek news of his
father from King Nestor.
He arrives on the beach with the goddess Pallas Athena (who is in disguise), and finds Nestor, his sons and court making a sacrifice to Poseidon.
No news of his father is to be had, but Nestor promises Telemachus a chariot so that he can inquire at Sparta. After being feasted, he is taken to the palace to be bathed and anointed with oil by Nestor’s beautiful and youngest daughter, Polycaste, from which salubrious treatment he acquires the ‘body of an immortal.’ Curiously, a bathtub (below right) was discovered during the excavations.
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