Character Analysis-Athena

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Term Paper Title	Character Analysis-Athena
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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 father and why he is so long away.  Perhaps some one may tell you, or you may hear some rumour that god will send, which is often the best way for people to get news." (Homer 17)  If not for Athena, Telemachos might have taken his father for dead and encouraged his mother to marry one of her suitors.  But Athena, under the disguise of Mentes advises Telemachos to go on a journey to try to find out what happenened to Odysseus.  This is important because the journey of Telemachos played an important part 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 Ody...

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