Influences of the Grey Eyed One
The Gods has always impacted human kind, but not as much as Athena in the story of The Odyssey. Throughout the works, the Grey-eyed Goddess was the planner, the guide to achieving Odysseus battle to get home and kill the suitors. It would not have been possible for Odysseus to win if Athena had not intervened. Athena casted grace, courage, beauty, invisibility, and disguised in favor of getting Odysseus home.
Athena uses her powers to bring change to people in The Odyssey in various ways. Meaning for example, Athena changes her appearances several times in the story to gain advantages over Odysseus and Telemachus’ enemies. The Grey Eyed One uses the image of Mentor throughout the book because, not only is …show more content…
She mainly affected Telemachus, Odysseus, and Penelope in the story. The Grey-eyed One has always held a special place in her heart for Odysseus that is why she continues to impact him in different ways. It was Athena who inspired Odysseus to grab hold of the rocks when he was in the sea, edge of the Phaeacians. “For Athena poured on his shoulders and head a shimmering grace and made him taller ad more heavily muscled, so that he would be Welcomed by the Phaeacians as a man to respect.” She does it all in favor of helping Odysseus get home and achieve his goals. Also she puts courage in Telemachus heart several times in the beginning of the …show more content…
When Poseidon throws all the winds at Odysseus when his in the ocean. “She barricaded all the winds but one and ordered them to rest and fall asleep.” Without Athena’s influence Odysseus might have very well have been lost at sea and drowned, but that possibility will never be known. Throughout The Odyssey Athena always makes a plan ahead of time through every situation. She influenced the Phaeacians princess to wash robes that morning, so that Odysseus could achieve a ride home. The Goddess diverted Penelope’s mind when the maid found out the beggar was really Odysseus. When Odysseus is fighting the suitors she makes the spears miss him and Telemachus, along with the workers. Every step of the journey has always had some sort of impact by Athena.
Going through the affects the Grey-eyed One had in The Odyssey shows that it was really Athena who got Odysseus home. Athena was the true cunning hero of the works, without her brilliant mind and quick action who knows if Odysseus could have made it on his way back home. She also changed lives that surrounded Odysseus for instance, Penelope, Lartes, Telemachus, and many friends. Athena made them more clever, beautiful, and stronger than their age and life challenges could allow. She not only built Odysseus, but built many lives. The Grey-eyed One was the real story in The
The Gods has always impacted human kind, but not as much as Athena in the story of The Odyssey. Throughout the works, the Grey-eyed Goddess was the planner, the guide to achieving Odysseus battle to get home and kill the suitors. It would not have been possible for Odysseus to win if Athena had not intervened. Athena casted grace, courage, beauty, invisibility, and disguised in favor of getting Odysseus home.
Athena uses her powers to bring change to people in The Odyssey in various ways. Meaning for example, Athena changes her appearances several times in the story to gain advantages over Odysseus and Telemachus’ enemies. The Grey Eyed One uses the image of Mentor throughout the book because, not only is …show more content…
She mainly affected Telemachus, Odysseus, and Penelope in the story. The Grey-eyed One has always held a special place in her heart for Odysseus that is why she continues to impact him in different ways. It was Athena who inspired Odysseus to grab hold of the rocks when he was in the sea, edge of the Phaeacians. “For Athena poured on his shoulders and head a shimmering grace and made him taller ad more heavily muscled, so that he would be Welcomed by the Phaeacians as a man to respect.” She does it all in favor of helping Odysseus get home and achieve his goals. Also she puts courage in Telemachus heart several times in the beginning of the …show more content…
When Poseidon throws all the winds at Odysseus when his in the ocean. “She barricaded all the winds but one and ordered them to rest and fall asleep.” Without Athena’s influence Odysseus might have very well have been lost at sea and drowned, but that possibility will never be known. Throughout The Odyssey Athena always makes a plan ahead of time through every situation. She influenced the Phaeacians princess to wash robes that morning, so that Odysseus could achieve a ride home. The Goddess diverted Penelope’s mind when the maid found out the beggar was really Odysseus. When Odysseus is fighting the suitors she makes the spears miss him and Telemachus, along with the workers. Every step of the journey has always had some sort of impact by Athena.
Going through the affects the Grey-eyed One had in The Odyssey shows that it was really Athena who got Odysseus home. Athena was the true cunning hero of the works, without her brilliant mind and quick action who knows if Odysseus could have made it on his way back home. She also changed lives that surrounded Odysseus for instance, Penelope, Lartes, Telemachus, and many friends. Athena made them more clever, beautiful, and stronger than their age and life challenges could allow. She not only built Odysseus, but built many lives. The Grey-eyed One was the real story in The