The Odyssey Book 1 The poet invokes the Muse to help him tell the story of Odysseus. How original. I learn that Poseidon‚ god of the sea‚ begrudges (though I don’t know exactly why) against Odysseus and is making the guy’s expedition home pretty difficult. This tells me two very important things: (1) Greek gods are temperamental‚ and (2) Poseidon is a powerful guy. So Poseidon isn’t around on Mount Olympus (presumably because he’s full of activity scheming retaliation)‚ while the other gods
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The 2012 movie “The Hunger Games” is a fireball of a movie‚ in which the main character was based on Athena the Greek goddess. As Katniss is the modern day version‚ their story isn’t exactly the same. Athena got praised‚ while Katniss got challenged to keep her life. As Katniss Everdeen was in “The Hunger Games‚” Athena was also known as independent‚ determined‚ and most of all wise. Athena was very much independent. As many men desired her‚ she stayed a virgin and did not seek to marry (Greek 2014)
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told by Poseidon “man is nothing without the gods”. Poseidon felt Odysseus was not thankful for Poseidon’s help with the battle Trojan War. He felt Odysseus needed to be taught a lesson to be more thankful to the gods for their help. Odysseus appeared righteous and gloated that he had conquered Troy on his own. (Hallmark Home Entertainment‚ 1997‚ Scene 1) During the Trojan War‚ Odysseus created the Trojan horse‚ which allowed the army to enter the great walls of Troy but it was Poseidon who allowed
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built to deliver a baby‚ he had gestated the baby in his head. There was a lack of an opening that would serve as the birth canal‚ but she needed to be born. Zeus’s step-son Prometheus struck him in the head with an axe to release Athena. She emerged from Zeus’s head fully armed. In‚ ancient Greece each city had a god that looked after them. In Athens the Athenians couldn’t decide whether their dominant god should be Athena or Poseidon. Athena came up with a great idea that each god should give
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from the gods. Another theory says that Medusa was once a mortal woman that Poseidon raped in the temple of Athena. Athena made Medusa suffer because of her jealousy by altering her beauty and isolated her as a Gorgon because of the defiling her temple. Another theory is that Athena punished Medusa because she claimed her beauty surpassed the goddess herself in which caused offence. An additional theory is that Poseidon loved and married Medusa and when blood fell‚ into the salt sea foam‚ it produced
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blinding tears”(Homer page 157) or “….In the nights‚ true‚ he’d sleep with her [Calypso] in the arching cave….”(Homer page 157)]. However‚ he is not physically capable of getting himself home with all the powers of Poseidon against him for “…..every god took pity‚ all except Poseidon. He raged on‚ seething against the great Odysseus till he reached his native land...”)(Homer page 78) and no crew or boat. So‚ with nothing to do‚ he is left to leave his fate to the gods‚ as personal responsibility
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In Greek mythology there were the three major gods Zeus‚ Poseidon‚ and Hades. Their father was Kronos. Kronos was the Lord of all the titans. He swallowed them whole but they fought their way up out of his mouth. They chopped him to pieces with his own weapon of power. They chopped him into a million pieces‚ and sent him to Tartarus to suffer for a lot of eras to come. And he did. The gods had children with humans. The children were called demigods. One of these demigods was called Percus. He
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says "it’s the Earth-Shaker‚ Poseidon‚ unappeased‚ forever fuming against him (81)." Poseidon is angry with Odysseus and is set on preventing his journey home; however the other gods go against Poseidon and "put heads together now‚ work out his journey home so Odysseus can return (91-92)." The gods have little care about the others and if it is in their own interest they will help‚ or prevent‚ something to occur. As in the Odyssey the gods go against the will of Poseidon and help Odysseus on his journey
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giving advice to mortals and even to Zeus the King of the Gods. In one case she helped Odysseus the hero of the Trojan War. Odysseus won Athena’s favor with his intelligence and clever nature. Throughout the war Athena‚ placed thoughts and ideas in his head that helped him during his adventure. Even later she appeared to him before he entered the capital where his wife Penelope lived (The Gods and Goddesses). She tried to convince him that Penelope thinks he was dead and that she has remarried‚ but Odysseus
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Telemachus. Though a strong and courageous warrior‚ he is most renowned for his cunning. He is a favorite of the goddess Athena‚ who often sends him divine aid‚ but a bitter enemy of Poseidon‚ who frustrates his journey at every turn. Odysseus went on a voyage‚ over time he has made Poseidon the God of water. On this voyage Poseidon just keeps trying to stop and kill
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