Penelope first meets Odysseus in the novel when he is in disguise; she has no idea that this small beggar is really her long lost husband. It is very important that Odysseus should appear before Penelope as a beggar; fore how else should Odysseus know that Penelope still loves him. This large detail is proven when Penelope is describing Odysseus as a great heroic figure and she breaks down to tears. The tears alone prove that she still loves him, but there is even more. "Staunch Odysseus glowed with joy to hear all this- his wife's trickery luring gifts from her suitors now, enchanting their hearts with suave seductive words but all the while with something else in her mind." In expressing that she had something else in her mind, the author alludes to the fact that she still loves Odysseus. She is merely taking to suitors for everything they are worth so to speak. While these are only a few examples of Odysseus's deception's pivotal role in the epic, they clearly demonstrate how important Odysseus's deception really easy.
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While Odysseus uses of deception are very great, he is clearly outdone by the trickery and deception of the goddess Athena. Athena's is the entire reason why Telemachus actually goes in search of the whereabouts of his father. She slyly uses deception to pretend to be Telemachus's good friend Mentor. "But to Telemachus spoke bright-eyed Athena calling him forward before the imposing living room, having likened herself to Mentor both in form and in voice," Telemachus, already your well-armored comrades sit at the oar and await your setting out. Come, let us go, that we may not long delay their journey ""(29). Had Athena not posed as Mentor Odysseus would not have been motivated enough to go out in search of his father. Athena takes the guise of many other people in the epic; One of these such guises is Athena pretending to be a young girl. She asks directions from Odysseus and gives him much advice.
