Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

Athena is helping Odysseus in every way she can. She even eases Penelope's distress about the suitors, and aids Telemachus in his journey to find his father. She is trying very hard to reunite the family safely. Poseidon, however, is acting as the antagonist in this situation. He has a grievance with Odysseus because he injured the Cyclops, who called upon Poseidon to curse his homeward journey. Curse him he did. Poseidon conjures up terrible storms and rough sees to throw Odysseus off track and get him further away from his destination, even going so far as to toss him onto Kalypso's island for seven

The most powerful female force in The Odyssey is the goddess Athena. She, more than anyone else, brings about Odysseus’ homecoming. The poem opens with her pleading with Zeus to take pity on Odysseus. Zeus issues the command to Calypso to free Odysseus. Athena guides Odysseus every step of his voyage to Ithaca. She tells Odysseus that it is she “who always stands beside [him], shields [him] in every

Odysseus and Telemachus have one final thing in common on their journeys; they are both aided by Athena. Athena had been an ally of Odysseus since the Trojan War, mainly because she reminded him of herself. Throughout The Odyssey Athena aides both heroes on several occasions; Athena begs her father Zeus to allow her to aid Odysseus, so he can go home to his family, "Father, son of [Kronos], King of kings, it served Aegisthus right … it is for [Odysseus] that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea-girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends” (Butler BK 1). Athena helps Telemachus by getting him his ship and crew before the journey to search for word of Odysseus, and develops a bond with both of them throughout the story.

During the final fight Athena shows up as mentor: “ But now into the gracious doorway stepped Zeus’s daughter Athena. She wore the guise of Mentor and Odysseus appealed to her in joy”(ⅩⅩⅡ 227-229). This time she is mostly there for moral support and to help Odysseus prove his own power. Athena helps in the end mostly by deflecting arrows. This battle closed Athena’s time as Odysseus’

In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus, the man of twists and turns, is able to find his way home after ten years of travails. Even though he eventually finds his way home at Ithaca, the expedition is not effortless as Odysseus’ fate is affected by immortals. First, because Odysseus blinded Poseidon’s son, Polyphemus, Poseidon and Zeus harm Odysseus and do what they want to him.

Athena and Leucothea, two of the most influential women in the story, play a prominent role in the story, for they help Odysseus complete his journey! Athena and Leucothea work together to save Oddyseus’s life when he is drowning out at sea. Odysseus had just gotten off the island of Calypso and was on his way home when Poseidon, the God of the sea created a massive storm and almost killed Odysseus. Poseidon was furious with Odysseus because he had blinded his son Polyphemus. Luckily, a mortal named Leucothea comes to his rescue. As Odysseus is drowning, Leucothea yells over the storm, “‘Strip off those clothes and leave your craft for the winds to hurl, and swim for it now, you must, strike out with your arms for landfall there, Phaeacian land where destined safety waits. Here, take this scarf, tie it around your waist—it is immortal.’” (Book #5) Athena then plays a role by helping him get through the storm to the land safely. If it weren’t for these two powerful and wise women, nobody would have heard the story of Odysseus and his completion of

Just like Odysseus, I’ve had people guide me, I have come across problems, and I have had some things make me stray from my personal Ithaca. Throughout Odysseus’ journey, the goddess Athena helped guide him and so he became known for his

Poseidon intervened with odysseus's life by stopping him from getting home but only because odysseus was bragging about doing everything at troy without the help of the gods and poseidon told odysseus to beware and set many obstacles for odysseus and his men eventually landing him stuck on Calypso's island

One powerfully strong and smart woman who helped Odysseus and teaches him was the goddess, Athena. All throughout Odysseus’s journey, Athena, was always there to guide and teach Odysseus. Athena is Odysseus’s mentor in The Odyssey. Whenever Odysseus needed help, Athena, always came to the rescue. When Odysseus is lost at sea, he struggles to find any land close to him. When Odysseus finally finds some source of land, all he really finds

Throughout the Odyssey, the struggles of Odysseus are revealed to the reader through the well written epic. His journey is very difficult and he is haunted with the loss of his entire crew and seemingly impossible task of getting home to his family. While journeying homewards, Odysseus makes the mistake of harming the Cyclops, who happens to be Poseidon's son. Poseidon is so angry at Odysseus for the harm he inflicted on the Cyclops, that through the influence of all powerful Zeus, he punishes Odysseus along with his other children, the Phaeacians, who can be seen to parallel as well as contrast with the Cyclops.

Odysseus was such a great man. He saw his palace was in distress, he had to make it right. I agree with what he did to everyone involved. Because of this, some might dislike him, some might now praise him. The fact that Odysseus took care of what was his and fought for it back amazes me. I call that loyalty to him. You have to be loyal to yourself before you’re loyal to anyone else.

Play an important role in this story was Polyphemus because he captive a Odysseus and his men in his cave. Later, he prayed to his father Poseidon to cursed Odysseus because odysseus left him blind, like in the text says: “Hear me, Poseidon, Girdler of Earth, grant that Odysseus may never reach his home in Ithaca. But if he is destined to reach his native land, let him come late, in evil plight, with all his comrades dead, and when he is landed, by a foreign ship, let him find trouble in his home.” One god is Poseidon because he is the god of the seas and he did not let Odysseus return to his home in Ithaca. I can interpreted that Poseidon put challenges in Odysseus trip.

In his journey, he has always gods with him sticking because of what he did. Athena was also his guide throughout the entire book. “Even if a god encountered you he would need to be wily and devious to outdo you in cunning.” Athena said (Book 13 Line 278). Athena was always in everything, she wanted to make sure good of everything about Odysseus and his family. Although his freewill might not be there as he was being controlled, “Goddess, it is hard for a man to recognize you when he meets you no matter how clever he is, since you take what shape you will.” Odysseus said (Book 13 Line 285). He submits to Athena on everything in order to help bring everything back to

As Telemachus tracks Odysseus' trail through stories from his old Comrades- in- arm, Athena arranges for the release of Odysseus from the Island of the beautiful goddess Calypso, whose prisoner and lover he has been for the last seven years. Odysseus sets sail on a makeshift raft, but the sea god Poseidon, whose wrath Odysseus incurred earlier in his adventure by blinding Poseidon's son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, conjures up a storm. With Athena's help Odysseus reaches the Phaeacians. Their princess, Nausicaa, who has a crush on the handsome warrior, opens the palace to the stranger. Odysseus withholds his identity for as long as he can until finally, at the Phaeacians' request, he tells the story of his adventures.

In the end, it does not necessarily need to be Athene or Zeus to be able to go with Odysseus on his journey. Honestly, it might be better that Hermes goes instead of the one of the other two because it seems Hermes is more reliable just because of his interesting characteristics of trickery, toughness, and