Weegy: When Mentes visits Telemachus to predict that Odysseus is still alive in Book One, he encourages Telemachus to banish the suitors from his estate and travel to Pylos and Sparta. [ What I know about ancient Greek culture and Telemachus that would make Telemachus so inclined to take this advice from someone he barely knows is:
Telemachus had a feeling that Mentes was a god or goddess in disguise; thus, it made Mentes seem all the more trustworthy and reliable.
Telemachus was still holding onto the faint hope that his father was alive; thus, he was more willing to take a chance in the hopes that this was true.
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