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Imagine living in another world and time, one where youwere not only a god but could also shapeshift. That is, you could take the form of any object or person that you chose. Athena, the daughter of the most powerful god, Zeus has this ability. Of all the chara ....

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.... advises Telemachos to go on a journey to try to find out what happenened to Odysseus. This is important because the journey of Telemachos played an important part of his becoming a man. Athena also rescued Odysseus from certain death at the hands of Poseidon Earthshaker and brought him to the island of Phaiacia. "Now it was the turn of Athenaia the daughter of Zeus, and this was her plan. She tied up the courses of all the other winds, and commanded them to rest and be quiet; but she sent a steady wind from the north and broke down the waves in front of Odysseus, that he might make his way and save himself alive." (Homer 70) At this point in the ....