The meeting of father and son begins when Odysseus meets his son at the cow herders home. He lives in a shed. The man knows that its him. Telemachus comes to the shed and Odysseus tries to tell him that he is his father, Telemachus is at first doubtful but soon believes that he is his father. Considering that Telemachus hasn't seen him since birth. And everybody has said that Odysseus is dead, which he had started to believe himself, after not being able to find him. After they embrace and get to know each other again, Telemachus lets Odysseus now about whats been going on at the palace.