TheOdyssey, Book 7, lines 82-89. Athena gives Odysseus some important advice about Arete, queen of the Phaeacians. Arete has the loyalty of all the people, she reveals, as she uses a simile to compare her to a god. If Odysseus can win the queen to his side, then he has hopes of reaching his homeland and family, she tells him.
Thegods finally finish what they started. Also, this quote includes an important element of Homeric style, an epithet. It says “the daughter of Zeus whose shield is storm and thunder,” describing Athena. The quote really just finishes the whole tale of war that was followed through The Iliad and The Odyssey. 2. Importantquotes by Athena in The Odyssey. SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year as selected above. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription. Books12-14.listen closely to what I tell you now. and god himself will bring it back to mind. First you will raise the island of the Sirens, those creatures who spellbind any man alive, whoever comes their way. Whoever draws too close, off guard, and catches the Sirens’ voices in the air —. no sailing home for him, no wife rising to Inthe world of The Odyssey, gods regularly intervene on behalf of humans, often to right wrongs and punish injustice. In this quote, Telemachus warns his mother's suitors that he prays to Zeus to punish them for taking advantage of his father's absence. Zeus responds immediately to Telemachus's prayer by "launching two eagles" that fight above
theone you pine for all your daysNevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—. to travel home and see the dawn of my return. And if a god will wreck me yet again on the wine-dark sea, I can bear that too, with a spirit tempered to endure. Much have I suffered, labored long and hard by now. in the waves and wars.
AT H E N A I N T H E O D Y S S E Y 1) 1.44 - Athena questions Zeus about Ulysses 2) 1.80 - Athena proposes the return of Ulysses to his own home 3) 1.118 - Telemachus 4dlM.
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