Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Roles of Gods
- Ino
- She gives him useful advice and the veil to help him swim/
prevent him from drowning after Poseidon destroys his raft
- Hermes
- Goes to Ogiogia To order Calypso to free Odysseus
- Sends the spirits of the dead to the underword
- Gives Oysseus the drug on Aeolia which
allowed him to resist Circe
- Athene
- Odysseus patron godess
- Petitions Zeus Asking him to send
Hermes to Calypso's island
- Phaecians
- Enhances his beauty in
front of Nausicaa
- Enhances status by referring to how far Odysseus has thrown
the discus
- Nausicaa
- Provides the branch that Odysseus hides under before meeting
Nausicaa
- Influences the dream that leads Nausicaa to be in the correct
place at the correct time
- Disguises herself as
a young girl to give
Odysseus directions
to the palace
- She casts a mist over
Odysseus so that he is not
seen and offended by the
questions that he may be
asked
- Frequently visited Telemacus to give him news of his father
- Visits him in disguise as Mentes to encourage him to mature
- Calms a storm that Zeus created to save odysseus
- Disguises Odysseus as a beggar so that
nobody will know his true idenitity
- Zeus
- Helps Odysseus when he visits
the underworld and manages to
escape
- Orders Hermes to go to Calypso
- Hides Odysseus from Scylla's six heads
- Creates the storm that kills Odysseus' men
- He controls everything that happens
in the Odyssey even though is is not
physically involved
- Poseidon
- Curses Odysseus for
blinding Polyphemus
- He is the nemesis of Odysseus
- He turns the Phaecian ship to stone which
carried Odysseus on his final journey home
- Aeolus
- Is a good host
- Provides odysseus with a bag
full of the winds to help him on
his journey