Athena and Telemachus

Chayenne Georges Prof Jette Eng-111 3/10/13 genus Athene and Telemachus genus Athene, the hoary eyed goddess, is one of those women in The Odyssey whose image is so important. She is the goddess of wisdom, who helps Telemachus on a locomote to bring his breed back home. Athena goes to Odysseus son to put endurance in him. She doesnt show her true ego to humans instead Athena disguises herself on three several(predicate) occasions. She appeared as Odysseus maven Mentes, when she approached Telemachus. When Athena touches down Ithaca she is immediately scratchy by Telemachus, who was sitting unhappy among the suitor.Free-will is greatly used between Athena and Telemachus, when she is persuading him to gamble his father. Athena says, If I were you, I should tug these steps to make these men disperse, Homer, 320. here Athena is trying to get Telemachus to pull ahead that its time for his father to pursue to Ithaca, and he has to get the suitors out of his home. In The Odyss ey Telemachus is portrayed as a son who has to grow up, he needs to let on the courage and guidance to find his father, Athena is Telemachus voice she is the one who helps give this courage to him.The Odyssey give you more of an external resume of the characters, it doesnt really expose their intragroup thoughts or feelings. Meadowlands by, Louise Gluck demonstrates Telemachus true feelings for his father. When I was junior I felt sorry for myself compulsively in practical terms, I had no father my mother lived at her bulk large hypothesizing her husbands erotic spiritedness Meadowlands, Telemachus graciousness, 24. Here a whole different side of Telemachus is being identified.In Meadowlands Telemachus is angry at his parents, he pity them. This quote from Telemachus Kindness shows the anger he has towards his father for leaving. He feels as if he had no childhood because he never had a father figure in his deportment. genus Penelope sorrowed all over Odysseus absence, in stead of marrying one of the suitors and give Telemachus a father figure, someone to look to, Penelope often fantasied about her husband life and what he is doing while he is gone. She would oscillate every night to stall the suitors, life from marrying them.