... "(Book 6:282). Pallas Athena is a goddess who makes a plea to Zeus "that wise Odysseus shall return home at last, let us dispatch the guide and giant-killer Hermes down to Ogygia Island, down to announce at once to the nymph with lovely braids our fixed decree: Odysseus journeys home- the exile must return"(Book 1:99). Athena watches out for Odysses. She tells Zeus, "Father, son ... of Cronus, our high and mighty king, surely he goes down to a death he earned in full! Let them all die so, all ... ones still, he suffers torments off on a wave-washed island rising at the center of the sea...

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... intellectual ability. Odysseus is an appropriate hero for he embodies the values of bravery, intelligence, astuteness, and competency. While he trying to return home from Ilium, numerous suitors attempt to seduce his wife, Penelope. However, when he returns Odysseus cleverly plans and carries out the demise of the evil and wasteful suitors with the help of Athena, goddess of wisdom: "Come on [Athena] weave me a plan to punish them ... for twenty years. Eumaios praises Odysseus as "A rare fine master." "Indeed I do not mourn so much for them as for him [Odysseus], though I long to see 'e...

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... no will to do us harm, only offering the sweet Lotos to out friends..." (IX. 98-100). Eating the plant did not seem like a bad idea, but resisting was a much wiser option, ."..but those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotos, never cared to report, nor return: they longed to stay forever, browsing on that native bloom, forgetful of their homeland" (IX. 101-104). If they ... had eaten the plant, they never would have gotten home. Another ... great temptation they had to withstand was the Seirenes. The Seirenes would tempt the men to them with their beauty and music ... ...

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... a concept that has ruled many civilizations. The belief in destiny and the higher powers are what drive the human race to their full potential. In the epic The Odyssey, they bend their lives to the rule of fate. We are shown both examples of how the humans regard the gods, and how the gods regard the humans. It is apparent, however, that ... ones' reach his high-roofed house, his native land at last." ( pg 156, lines 125-128) He points out that it is not Odysseus' fate to remain on the island with her, but for him to return home. Through this quotation it is evident that the Gods do no...

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... may not long delay their journey ""(29). Had Athena not posed as Mentor Odysseus would not have been motivated enough to go out in search of his father. Athena takes the guise of many other people in the epic; One of these such guises is Athena pretending to be a young girl. She asks directions from Odysseus and gives him much advice. ""Here, Sir stranger, is ... from the same line as is the king Alcinous. Nausithous at the first was born from the earth-shaker Poseidon and Periboea, the comeliest of women, youngest daughter of great-hearted Eurymedon, who once was king over the insolent...

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