Roles of Gods

Roles of Gods

1. Ino

   • She gives him useful advice and the veil to help him swim/ prevent him from drowning after Poseidon destroys his raft

2. Hermes

   • Goes to Ogiogia To order Calypso to free Odysseus
   • Sends the spirits of the dead to the underword
   • Gives Oysseus the drug on Aeolia which allowed him to resist Circe

3. Athene

   • Odysseus patron godess
   • Petitions Zeus Asking him to send Hermes to Calypso's island
   • Phaecians
     • Enhances his beauty in front of Nausicaa
     • Enhances status by referring to how far Odysseus has thrown the discus
     • Nausicaa
       • Provides the branch that Odysseus hides under before meeting Nausicaa
       • Influences the dream that leads Nausicaa to be in the correct place at the correct time
     • Disguises herself as a young girl to give Odysseus directions to the palace
     • She casts a mist over Odysseus so that he is not seen and offended by the questions that he may be asked
   • Frequently visited Telemacus to give him news of his father
     • Visits him in disguise as Mentes to encourage him to mature
   • Calms a storm that Zeus created to save odysseus
   • Disguises Odysseus as a beggar so that nobody will know his true idenitity

4. Zeus

   • Helps Odysseus when he visits the underworld and manages to escape
   • Orders Hermes to go to Calypso
   • Hides Odysseus from Scylla's six heads
   • Creates the storm that kills Odysseus' men
     • He controls everything that happens in the Odyssey even though is is not physically involved

5. Poseidon

   • Curses Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus
   • He is the nemesis of Odysseus
   • He turns the Phaecian ship to stone which carried Odysseus on his final journey home

6. Aeolus

   • Is a good host
   • Provides odysseus with a bag full of the winds to help him on his journey