2023: A Space Odyssey

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Group 9-Creative Narrative-Athena

Importance Apart from the title and some indirect references to the goddess in the lyrics, “Athena” by The Who could be perceived as having very little relation to the goddesses’s character in The Odyssey. However, looking at the song from a modern...

Group 9-Image Reading-Athena

Observations and Analysis A clear representation of Athena’s leadership in The Odyssey, the painting shows the scene in Book 13 where Athena reveals herself and the all the help she’s given to Odysseus on the shore of Ithaca upon his arrival home. In the...

Group 9-Close Reading-Athena

Introduction In Book 2, we see extensively the facets of Athena’s leadership and its subsequent impact on Telemachus’s character development as she helps him set out on his journey to find his father. Following Athena and Telemachus’s meeting in Book 1, in which she...