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Character Analysis: Athena - School Essays

Character Analysis: Athena

Imagine living in another world and time, one where youwere not
only a god but could also shapeshift. That is, you could take the form of
any object or person that you chose. Athena, the daughter of the most
powerful god, Zeus has this ability. Of all the characters in the Odyssey,
the most interesting to me is Athena. In my opinion, she guides the main
characters of the Odyssey in the right direction. She kind of looks over
their shoulders and serves as a guardian angel.
Athena makes Telemachos go to Pylos and Sparta. Athena says, "My
advice to you is this, if you will let me advise you. Get the best ship
you can find, put twenty oarsmen aboard, go and find out about your ...

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of his becoming a man.
Athena also rescued Odysseus from certain death at the hands of
Poseidon Earthshaker and brought him to the island of Phaiacia. "Now it
was the turn of Athenaia the daughter of Zeus, and this was her plan. She
tied up the courses of all the other winds, and commanded them to rest and
be quiet; but she sent a steady wind from the north and broke down the
waves in front of Odysseus, that he might make his way and save himself
alive." (Homer 70) At this point in the novel Posiedon is enraged with
Odysseus because he is about to make it home. It seems every time that
Odysseus is about to make it home, Poseidon is reminded that Odysseus
killed his son Polyphemos. Again Athena saves Odysseus, this time from
Charybdis. "Then his skin would have been torn off and all his bones
broken, if Athena had not put a thought into his mind; he flung himself
upon a rock and caught hold with both hands, and clung there groaning,
until backwash rolled upon him again, and ...

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Added: 11/29/2007 05:31:26 AM
Category: Arts
Type: Free Paper
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