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Athena is confident, practical, clever, a master of disguises, and a great warrior, characteristics she finds reflected in Telemachus. Her role as goddess of the womanly arts gets very little attention in The Odyssey.
At dawn, Athena in the guise of Alcinous gathers people to the meeting grounds. When everyone arrives, Alcinous asks his people to bring a ship down to the sea and to find a crew of fifty-two men to transport Odysseus home; everyone else, he says, should gather to feast and celebrate.
21 lis 2023 · Athena is the divine patron of Odysseus, projecting his affairs into the heavens and protecting him from (or dampening) the malicious influence of other deities. She also guides him through many...
11 sty 2022 · Athena helping Odysseus in the Odyssey is a testament to her character as a goddess and her love for those she holds dear. She advocates for Odysseus as he is imprisoned on Calypso’s island; she paved the way for his safe return to Ithaca.
Athena Character Analysis. Athena. The goddess of wisdom, justice, and courage. She takes a particular liking to Odysseus, and by extension Telemachus – perhaps because Odysseus's suffering is greater than his crimes, perhaps because he embodies the values she champions.
A daughter of Zeus and a "patron of human ingenuity" (Fables and Knox, p. 524), Athena is the one who first sent Odysseus on his wanderings as part of the punishment for a desecration of her temple by one of the Greek warriors at Troy.
As Odysseus sleeps, Athena flies to a Phaeacian city where the princess Nausicaa, daughter of the king Alcinous, lies sleeping. Disguised as a girl the princess's age, Athena scolds her for the poor condition of her clothes, and suggests that they go to the shore to wash them.
