Mortals And Gods In The Odyssey
---------------Relationship Between Gods and Mortals----------------------------------
-----Observing the relationship between the polytheistic gods and mortals in the time of Homer seems, in comparison, is odd to our judeo-christian traditions found in our society. Where some may see a omnishient and powerful being as a inactive in the our everyday dealings, the Gods in
Homer's time were consistently involved in either hindering or aiding those they found to their liking or disliking. In the epic poem "The Odyssey"by Homer (translated by W.H.D. Rouse) Odyseuss is constantly helped and hindered throughout the story by a multitude of Gods.
-----To begin, in the VII book Odysseus has been blown off course and has been shipwrecked at …show more content…
Since there was such an abundance of Gods to follow in the greek polytheistic religon humans favored certain Gods to pray to and worship and in turn the Gods favored certain humans and gave special attention to. The way the gods treated their followers were as if they were using them as pawns on a great chessboard, pushing them all in different paths as if it were somesort of entertainment.
Athena knew that Odysseus was a proper man and could win over the Phaecians, but she chooses to intercede his natural path and gifts him with the knowledge of their culture and turns him invisible so he may enter the castle. The Goddess could have just as easily just transported Odysseus into the castle properly dressed and fully groomed, but she took a less involved route. The Gods seem to favor slightly altering information available to humans or effecting relationships and just watching how it would play out.
-----Athena doesn't forcefully push Nausicaa to find Odysseus rather she just implies it and also she supllies miniscule aid on the path to the castle. On the occasion gods appear to humans as their normal selves, but
-----Observing the relationship between the polytheistic gods and mortals in the time of Homer seems, in comparison, is odd to our judeo-christian traditions found in our society. Where some may see a omnishient and powerful being as a inactive in the our everyday dealings, the Gods in
Homer's time were consistently involved in either hindering or aiding those they found to their liking or disliking. In the epic poem "The Odyssey"by Homer (translated by W.H.D. Rouse) Odyseuss is constantly helped and hindered throughout the story by a multitude of Gods.
-----To begin, in the VII book Odysseus has been blown off course and has been shipwrecked at …show more content…
Since there was such an abundance of Gods to follow in the greek polytheistic religon humans favored certain Gods to pray to and worship and in turn the Gods favored certain humans and gave special attention to. The way the gods treated their followers were as if they were using them as pawns on a great chessboard, pushing them all in different paths as if it were somesort of entertainment.
Athena knew that Odysseus was a proper man and could win over the Phaecians, but she chooses to intercede his natural path and gifts him with the knowledge of their culture and turns him invisible so he may enter the castle. The Goddess could have just as easily just transported Odysseus into the castle properly dressed and fully groomed, but she took a less involved route. The Gods seem to favor slightly altering information available to humans or effecting relationships and just watching how it would play out.
-----Athena doesn't forcefully push Nausicaa to find Odysseus rather she just implies it and also she supllies miniscule aid on the path to the castle. On the occasion gods appear to humans as their normal selves, but