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But Odysseus stayed away too long, for ten years passed before the Achaeans brought the Trojan War to an end, and another ten elapsed between the end of the war and Odysseus ' return to Ithaca. Now, some have said that absence makes the heart grow fonder. But Penelope , they argued, had fooled them several years, asking them to wait for her decision until she had completed the shroud of Laertes, which she in reality never intended to complete, since she wove it by day but undid it by night.
To compensate themselves for the queen's tricks, the SUITORS decided that the household would pay for their great feasts until Penelope , leaving her cleverness aside, made her choice. And so the SUITORS , finding it quite natural to organise great parties at the expense of Odysseus ' household, slaughtered his animals and drank his wine in his own palace. While all this was taking place, Odysseus ' son Telemachus , who at the time did not know whether his father was dead or alive, could neither oppose the SUITORS ' pestering of his mother with unwanted attentions, nor his wealth being frittered away by their feasts.
Allowing crime Now, those who commit crimes are fools because they, failing to discern between right and wrong, and being therefore unjust, destroy everything even for themselves.
But those who allow the crimes to be committed create guilt for themselves; for they let evil spread, though they know better than the fools who destroy their own lives through crime. And whereas it is obvious that criminals, acting from the wickedness of their hearts often risk their own skins, those who sit in abject silence giving way to injustice, nurture the vain hope of risking nothing.
This kind of omission, explains Mentor 4 , leads to tyranny. For when no gratitude is shown towards a kind, fair, and generous rule, then someone may think that it might be just as well to devote himself to tyranny or lawless deeds.
And if one were to judge by the case of King Odysseus , it was apparent that he was not being supported, during his absence, by those who had benefited from his rule. The conversation that follows has been edited for length and clarity. Gregory Nagy : In the Greek of The Odyssey , a mentor is someone who instills a heroic mentality in somebody.
Nagy : What Athena succeeds in doing as Mentor is connecting the thinking of the young man with the realities of the heroic legacy of not only his father, but all his ancestors, male and female. This relationship literally connects the mind of Athena with the mind of Telemachus—there is a real transfer of thought from one to the other, and that transference is embodied by Mentor.
She lets him know how he can behave like a true prince. In the Odyssey, Homer describes how Odysseus faces a series of obstacles and challenges that stop him from returning home for another ten years. Odysseus put his trust in the wrong man, and Telemachus ended up insecure, indecisive and unconfident in his ability to claim his birthright. He was a bit of a wuss. Luckily for Odysseus, the gods liked to interfere in the lives of mere mortals, and the goddess Athena, in particular, was following closely.
Athena wanted Odysseus back on the throne and so appeared to young Telemachus to offer him guidance. Odysseus finally settled back in Ithaca spoiler alert!
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