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This drives home the point that Odysseus had great divine intervention from the gods, especially Athena, and this greatly impacted Odysseus’ odysseyĪthena removes the disguise that she places over Odysseus earlier and reveals to Telemachus his long lost father She reaffirms to Odysseus that she has had a great influence on his journey It is revealed that Odysseus felt that Athena, the goddess who has protect him and his family throughout his entire journey, abandoned him This idea reveals to Odysseus the great value of human life Odysseus tells Achilles that glory is everythingĪchilles rebuts this statement and tells Odysseus to always remember that a life, no matter how poor or small, is always better than death Most important meeting while there is with Achilles Meets a blind prophet who, although blind, sees and predicts Odysseus future Meets his mother who reveals that Penelope is all right but that Odysseus needs to rescue her She is the character who sends Odysseus to the Underworld Poseidon decides to try and kill Odysseus by any means necessary and since Odysseus’ journey home is entirely along water, this will not be all too difficultĬirce, the island witch, is written as a strong and dominant female character
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Odysseus meets the Cyclopes and after triumphing over him, he loses his hubris and humilityīoasts to the Cyclopes about how he, Odysseus, defeated himĬyclopes cries to his father about Odysseus His destiny was to make it home and complete his journey Odysseus should have dies many times in Homer’s epic and yet he did not Turns down Calypso’s offer of immortality Homer focuses in on Penelope and TelemachusĪllows readers to see what Odysseus left behindĪllows readers to hear of Odysseus great legacyįirst image of this great hero is of him weeping for his home and family