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Odysseus 'Goddess Of Wisdom In Homer's Odyssey'

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I my opinion I think that the Goddesses Athena gives the best advice to Telemachus for finding his lost father who was out at sea while he was on his voyage home. She goes in disguise from Mount Olympus and tells Odysseus son the pivotal news in this story that his father may be alive. She keeps on telling him news that him develop a mindset that is father is alive; therefore, he gains hope and is eager to find him at sea. Since Athena was able to change the pace of Telemachus hope for finding his father, and since it set the poor for the rest of the book. For this, Athena the Goddess of wisdom gives the most helpful advice. I would have listen to Athena, but not the first time that she said it in disguise. The first time she said it I would

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