Telemachus leaves Ithaca to go to Pylos, the city of Neleus. Telemachus spends a night in Pherae, home of Diocles. Finally, Telemachus arrives at the home of Menelaus, Lacedaemon.
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Athena encourages Telemachus to go on a journey to see if his father Odysseus is still alive and when he finishes this journey to go and kill the suitors.
to get telemachus out of harms way. He needed to leave the island until it was safe to return with his father. If he would have stayed he may have been killed by the suitors!
Sparta
To return to his family; Penelope [wife], Telemachus [son] and Anticlea [mom], and to retreive his kingdom.
to see his father