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The Odyssey 6
Title: The Odyssey 6
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 461 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Odyssey 6
The Odyssey
The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus's journey from Troy to Ithaka. During his journey Odysseus is impeded by Poseidon and assisted by Athena. The use of olive wood as a metaphor lies in the differences between Athena and her uncle Poseidon in Odysseus's journey back to Ithaka.
Before the first time olive wood is used in the Odyssey Homer shows what side the gods are on, in book one Homer says, "all …showed first 75 words of 461 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 461 total…those days they used the oil for food, to keep the skin and hair soft, probably lots of other stuff. Athena is Odysseus patron. Odysseus is at odds with Poseidon. I see Poseidon as the god of instinct, and Athena as the goddess of wisdom.
Work Cited
Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. In The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces Volume 1, Seventh Edition. Ed. Sarah Lawall and Mark Maynard et al, New York: Norton, 1999, 209-514.
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