The name Medusa congers up a particular image in the brain of the unenlightened person; a hideous, malevolent woman-beast with serpents replacing hair, boar-like tusks, and a gaze so intense that it turns even the strongest man into stone. ... Wearing his cap of invisibility and using the reflection of a shield held by Athena, he beheads Medusa and flies away with his winged sandals, the Gorgon sisters chase after him but without success, for his cap makes him invisible. ...

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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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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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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. ...

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"Hades, the lord of the underworld, represents the body intelligence of man; and the rape of Persephone is symbolic of the divine nature assaulted and defiled by the animal soul and dragged downward into the somber darkness of Hades, which is here used as a synonym for the material, or objective, sphere of consciousness" (The Rape of Persephone). ... The helmet of Hades which made the wearer invisible was given to Hades by the god Hephaestus or by the Cyclopes after their delivery from the Underworld to fight against the Titans. ...

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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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The creation of man is a story of "the five races" in which according to Hesiod, the five human races were created one after the extinction of the last by the gods. ... Which tells us that Cronus (the father of Zeus, Iasion, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, hades, Poseidon and Amphitrite) was told by Gaea that one of his offspring would over throw him he would swallow every son and daughter to ensure they would never have the chance, however when it came time for his youngest son (Zeus) to be born his mother went to a cave and gave birth to Zeus there he would grow with help from her parent th...

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