- So Athena disguises herself as Odysseus's old friend Mentes and goes to Telemachus, Odysseus's son who was a young boy when Odysseus left and now a young man. ... - Proteus another man there in Sparta told Telemachus. ... She often appears in disguise as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus. Poseidon - God of the sea. ... Zeus - King of gods and men, who mediate the conflicts of the gods on Mount Olympus. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Evander, for example, is a man whose simple, peaceful existence suggests he is a character who the audience will want to sympathise with. His son, Pallas, is the "only source of joy" for the old man. ... It is clear, then, that Virgil wishes to demonise war without even condoning conflict between opposing nations. ... Aeneas' hatred of war instils "great tides of grief" in his heart; this metaphor is especially fitting in a society which relies upon the sea for transport and food, and expresses the pain felt by Aeneas and his followers when they realise that they must ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poet Homer's 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. ... 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. ... The same would happen for those whose body is never recovered (people who died at sea.) ... Greek Mythology Timeline Greek Mythology is so old and humans didn't write anything down, like Christianity it was an oral tradition of stories, d...

• Word Count: 2584
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• Grade Level: High School

Then Night alone produced Doom, Fate, Death, Sleep, Dreams, Nemesis, and others that come to man out of darkness. ... From the sea foam where his genitales fell came Aphrodite. ... These individuals were the first metaphysicians on earth, searching for the reality hidden behind appearances Greek Philosophers Homer, the blind poet Homer was a blind Greek poet, to whom are ascribed the two greatest epics known to man: The Iliad and the Odyssey. ... He introduced a second actor where only one and a chorus had been used previously, making possible the conflict of wills and ideas that is so esse...

• Word Count: 2001
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School