... really impresses Odysseus. Athena helps Odysseus in more ways than one. She even gives him advice on how to address his own son Telemakhos. She makes Odysseus appear larger and stronger than he actually is just to impress Telemakhos. This is a great gesture by Athena because it doesn't seem to pose any great benefit to her. Another token of Odysseus greatness comes ... begging from each suitor (Book 17). Antinous the most evil of all the suitors is rude and hurls a chair at him. It takes a lot of restraint from both Odysseus and Telemakhos to not react (Book 17). Odysseus shows his grea...

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... the true companion he has sought." (Lawall, "Gilgamesh," 11) The world gives us countless unfair, tragic, and criminal events, of which many are unavoidable. In "The Odyssey," the young son Telemakhos " [when he heard] these things said, [his] heart rose in a long pang for his father, and he wept . . ." (Homer 261) In those times, we wish we could be the hero ... ...

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... much pain. "Odysseus pretends to be insane because he does not want to go to the war. But they find him out; on advice of Palamedes, they kidnap his son Telemakhos as a threat, thus forcing him to go." (30-33 Proclus" Summary of the Cypria). While these are valued standpoints, I contend Homer is rather trying to allow us, the audience, to ... ...

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