The Gods Who Loved Odysseus
The gods who actually liked Odysseus were the nice ones to him. Odysseus would not have made it home if it were not for the help from the gods. The gods that helped Odysseus where Zeus, Athena and Hermes. Homer incorporated the Greek gods into the Odyssey exceedingly well. The gods could supposedly control your life in ancient Greece if you worshiped them, they blessed you and helped you in life.
One of the gods that helped Odysseus was the great Zeus the king of the gods. Zeus helped Odysseus by his daughter Athena persuading him to free Odysseus from Calypso. She begged her father to make Calypso free Odysseus from her island. She finally convinced him to send Hermes to tell Calypso to free Odysseus from her clutches. …show more content…
She convinced her father to set Odysseus free from Calypso’s island where he wanted to be but not completely. She begged her father to set Odysseus free, she eventually begged enough that Zeus agreed. He sent Hermes down to Calypso’s island to demand to Calypso to set Odysseus free, and send him on his way home away from her forever to never meet again. Calypso complied unwillingly and set Odysseus free away from her and her island. Athena helped Odysseus throughout a lot of his journeys, especially when he was back at home on Ithaca. When he first floated to Ithaca he was a strong lord but to see if his people had been faithful to him Athena dressed him in beggars clothes. Odysseus first went to his faithful servants house, Eumaeus, he stayed faithful to Odysseus for all the 20 years that he had been away fighting at the war and trying to get back home. After they were talking for a while his son Telemachus showed up and Athena decided to reveal Odysseus for who he really is. “...She tipper her golden wand upon the man, making his cloak pure white, and the knit tunic fresh around him. Lithe and young she made him, ruddy with sun, his jawline clean, the beard no longer gray upon his chin. And she withdrew when she had done. Then Lord Odysseus reappeared - and his son was thunderstruck. Fear in his eyes, he looked down and away as though it were a god...” …show more content…
He helped Odysseus with escaping Calypso’s island by Zeus’s orders. He went down to the island and he had a chat with Calypso demanding that Odysseus be set free by the order of Zeus, and she knows just as well as everyone else that you do not defy Zeus. She listened and after they were done talking she went to Odysseus and told him to leave, leave her and her island and to never come back for she could not be with him. Hermes then also helped out Odysseus when he was climbing up the cliff to get to Circe’s palace. Circe could turn men into animals, so Hermes gave him moly to protect him from the spell in the wine that she gave him. Odysseus refused at first knowing that moly was a poisonous plant and that if you ate it would kill you. Hermes was smarter than that for he was a god and if a god gave it to you it was not poisonous. Hermes finally convinced Odysseus to take it and he did not die but was as said by Hermes was safe from Circe’s curse. “The god Hermes stops him to give him a plant that will weaken Circe’s power. Protected by the plant’s magic, Odysseus resists Circe’s sorcery. The goddess realising she has meet her match, free Odysseus’s men,” (675,
The gods who actually liked Odysseus were the nice ones to him. Odysseus would not have made it home if it were not for the help from the gods. The gods that helped Odysseus where Zeus, Athena and Hermes. Homer incorporated the Greek gods into the Odyssey exceedingly well. The gods could supposedly control your life in ancient Greece if you worshiped them, they blessed you and helped you in life.
One of the gods that helped Odysseus was the great Zeus the king of the gods. Zeus helped Odysseus by his daughter Athena persuading him to free Odysseus from Calypso. She begged her father to make Calypso free Odysseus from her island. She finally convinced him to send Hermes to tell Calypso to free Odysseus from her clutches. …show more content…
She convinced her father to set Odysseus free from Calypso’s island where he wanted to be but not completely. She begged her father to set Odysseus free, she eventually begged enough that Zeus agreed. He sent Hermes down to Calypso’s island to demand to Calypso to set Odysseus free, and send him on his way home away from her forever to never meet again. Calypso complied unwillingly and set Odysseus free away from her and her island. Athena helped Odysseus throughout a lot of his journeys, especially when he was back at home on Ithaca. When he first floated to Ithaca he was a strong lord but to see if his people had been faithful to him Athena dressed him in beggars clothes. Odysseus first went to his faithful servants house, Eumaeus, he stayed faithful to Odysseus for all the 20 years that he had been away fighting at the war and trying to get back home. After they were talking for a while his son Telemachus showed up and Athena decided to reveal Odysseus for who he really is. “...She tipper her golden wand upon the man, making his cloak pure white, and the knit tunic fresh around him. Lithe and young she made him, ruddy with sun, his jawline clean, the beard no longer gray upon his chin. And she withdrew when she had done. Then Lord Odysseus reappeared - and his son was thunderstruck. Fear in his eyes, he looked down and away as though it were a god...” …show more content…
He helped Odysseus with escaping Calypso’s island by Zeus’s orders. He went down to the island and he had a chat with Calypso demanding that Odysseus be set free by the order of Zeus, and she knows just as well as everyone else that you do not defy Zeus. She listened and after they were done talking she went to Odysseus and told him to leave, leave her and her island and to never come back for she could not be with him. Hermes then also helped out Odysseus when he was climbing up the cliff to get to Circe’s palace. Circe could turn men into animals, so Hermes gave him moly to protect him from the spell in the wine that she gave him. Odysseus refused at first knowing that moly was a poisonous plant and that if you ate it would kill you. Hermes was smarter than that for he was a god and if a god gave it to you it was not poisonous. Hermes finally convinced Odysseus to take it and he did not die but was as said by Hermes was safe from Circe’s curse. “The god Hermes stops him to give him a plant that will weaken Circe’s power. Protected by the plant’s magic, Odysseus resists Circe’s sorcery. The goddess realising she has meet her match, free Odysseus’s men,” (675,