Answer: I would contend that this statement is actually TRUE.
Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that this action takes place in Book 2, in which Telemachus prepares for his voyage. Telemachus is talking to a group of Achaeans, and one of them, Antinous, blames his mother Penelope for deceiving the suitors and requests him to force her to marry one of them. Telemachus rejects this idea, and, pleading the immortal gods, warns the Achaeans that one day they will die in his house. Immediately thereafter Zeus replies by sending out the two eagles, who fly over the crowd and beat their wings with "destruction in their eyes," and an old warrior named Halitherses makes the prophecy that Odysseus is on his way and plans a "disastrous fate" for the suitors.
