Womenin the Odyssey are scarce. Of the 19 main characters mentioned in the play, only seven are female, and one is a sea monster. Of those, four, the goddess Athena, Eurycleia the slave, and Nausicaa and her mother Arete, princess and queen of the Phaeacians, assist Odysseus rather than hinder his journey. Each is cast in the role of
Asgoddess of wisdom and battle, Athena naturally has a soft spot for the brave and wily Odysseus. She helps him out of many tough situations, including his shipwreck in Book 5
Onceagain, the gods intervene. The two sides engage in battle. Strengthened by his son's return and Athena's blessing, Laertes kills Eupithes. With one father defeating the other, the war ends there. Under directions from Zeus, Athena stops the conflict and calls for peace and cooperation. Prosperity is restored to Ithaca, and Odysseus is home
TheOdyssey is composed in dactylic hexameter, a strict poetic structure in which each line of the poem has six ‘feet,’ or dactyls, each made up of one long and two short syllables. Homer also repeats poetic phrases and entire lines of poetry. This repetition helped the bards performing the poem improvise verses that fit the necessary
Homer Odyssey, Book 3, line 371. So spoke the goddess, flashing-eyed Athena, and she departed in the likeness of a sea-eagle; and amazement fell upon all at the sight, and the old man marvelled, when his eyes beheld it. And he grasped the hand of Telemachus, and spoke, and addressed him: [375] “Friend, in no wise do I think that thou wilt
TheOdyssey Book 14. In a summary of Book 14 in The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus has finally returned to his kingdom of Ithaca. He goes to the hut of Eumaeus (also sometimes spelled as Eumaios), his
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