While these are valued standpoints, I contend Homer is rather trying to allow us, the audience, to come closer into the minds of the heroes by showing you how they would react to the retelling of their ordeals. ... She is the wife of Hektor, who was a "hero who fell in front of his city, where he was defending both the community and his children". ... Homer intertwines the divine once again in that Athena also showed empathy in the outset of the Odyssey. ... Without this extreme compassion for others, Odysseus" labors were inadequate to have the The Odyssey written, but now that he sees the...

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