"Menelaus,
royal son of Atreus, captain of armies,
let me go back to my own country now.
The heart inside me longs for home at last."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 15, lines 69-72. Telemachus is at the home of Menelaus in the city state of Lacedaemon (also known as Sparta). But he is missing his homeland and pleads with the king of Sparta to allow him go back to Ithaca.