enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Gods in The Odyssey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_in_The_Odyssey

    Odysseus was a great hero among the Greeks, and so had Athena’s favor and aid in many of his exploits. She was a key goddess in the story of the Odyssey as a divine assistant to Odysseus on his journey home. From the very beginning of the Odyssey, Athena is helping Odysseus.

  3. Odyssey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey

    The rest of Odysseus' adventures are recounted by Odysseus himself. The two scenes described by the narrator are Odysseus on Calypso's island and Odysseus' encounter with the Phaeacians. These scenes are told by the poet to represent an important transition in Odysseus' journey: being concealed to returning home. [29]

  4. The Odyssey (1997 miniseries) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(1997_miniseries)

    Odysseus and his men escape, but Odysseus brashly taunts the Cyclops who asks his father Poseidon to avenge him. This makes Odysseus' journey home harder. Odysseus travels to an island where Aeolus (Michael J. Pollard) provides him with a bag of wind to help him home, instructing him to open it when he gets close to Ithaca. One of his men opens ...

  5. Odysseus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Legendary Greek king of Ithaca For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). See also: Ulysses Fictional character Odysseus Head of Odysseus from a Roman period Hellenistic marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga, Italy In ...

  6. Athena - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena

    [173] [174] [170] Athena also appears to Odysseus's son Telemachus. [175] Her actions lead him to travel around to Odysseus's comrades and ask about his father. [176] He hears stories about some of Odysseus's journey. [176] Athena's push for Telemachus's journey helps him grow into the man role, that his father once held. [177]

  7. Telemachus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemachus

    Slaughter of the suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus, Campanian red-figure bell-krater, ca. 330 BC, Louvre (CA 7124) In Homer's Odyssey, Telemachus, under the instructions of Athena (who accompanies him during the quest), spends the first four books trying to gain knowledge of his father, Odysseus, who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant.

  8. Scheria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheria

    Pieter Lastman: Odysseus and Nausicaa (oil on panel, 1619; Alte Pinakothek, Munich). Scheria or Scherie (/ ˈ s k ɪər i ə /; Ancient Greek: Σχερία or Σχερίη), also known as Phaeacia (/ f iː ˈ eɪ ʃ ə /) or Faiakia, was a region in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey ...

  9. Suitors of Penelope - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitors_of_Penelope

    The suitors behave badly in Odysseus' home, drinking his wine and eating his food. Odysseus' son, Telemachus, now a young man, is frustrated with the suitors. Telemachus laments to Athena (disguised as Mentes, one of Odysseus' guest-friends) about the suitors' behavior. In return, Athena urges Telemachus to stand up to the suitors and set out ...