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A 5 page paper which discusses how Homer
uses various elements in "The Odyssey" to illustrate Odysseus' response for the need of
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among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would
not let him get home" (Book I). Thus typifies the struggles of Odysseus, a man who withstands the punishment and the intervention of gods. He is a man who, despite
the inherent game played by the gods against, or with him, seeks some way out and home, even if that way means revenge at times. Odysseus is a man determined
to find, and provide, social order in his life, despite the involvement of the gods as they sought to punish him or play with him. His struggles to find this
order bring him home where all can be placed right in his eyes. One Godly intervention is a serious, and often negative, issue in relationship to Odysseus search
for social order. We note this reality throughout the text as one god or another seeks to intervene and create havoc or ease the way for Odysseus, or Ulysses as
this translation refers to him. Some provide positive intervention. For example, at one point we see the godly intervention in a positive manner, concerning Telemachus worries about his father. He
is speaking to Minerva asking for some help. She replies, "Is that so? exclaimed Minerva, then you do indeed want Ulysses home again. Give him his helmet, shield, and a
couple of lances, and if he is the man he was when I first knew him in our house, drinking and making merry, he would soon lay his hands about
these rascally suitors, were he to stand once more upon his own threshold" (Book I). Though we are, at this point, unsure of what Minerva plans to truly do with
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