In book I, Athene urged Telemachus to give up boyhood, act like a man, present his case to search for his father to the assembly, and take stronger steps to search for his father. ... Athene even helped Odysseus by telling Naussicaa to do her laundry at the beach and telling her to help the man she meets. ... As they were going to Naussicaa's place Athene made Odysseus invisible so the guards would not see him and Athene made Odysseus look better by making him look taller, stronger, and giving him more hair on his head. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One major problem for Aphrodite was that every man wanted her to be his wife. ... Hephaestus then forged an invisible net and spread it over his wife's bed. ... Later, Aphrodite began to take interest in a mortal man named Adonis. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But you rose this man to get going by himself so that he overtakes me while I am still in the city. ... Homer illustrates him as a very delicate family-man. ... No man will cast me into the house of Hades beyond my fate. I don't think that any man can escape his fate, neither a coward nor a brave man, when once he is born. ... When he finally meets Achilles, he stands deluded by a dream of invisibility. ...

• Word Count: 1435
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• Grade Level: High School

James Joyce, in his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, traces the growth and development of Stephen Dedalus as he experiences a life filled with filial, social, educational and religious constraints. ... He now believed that his sin had made him invisible to God and he has no way to get out of it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School