Blog #3
Relationship between Odysseus and Athena compared to God and Job Athena’s goal is to help and protect Odysseus. In the story of Job and God, Job always trusted God and believed that God was always trying to help him. Odysseus always put his trust in Athena. Athena didn’t let bad things happen to Odysseus while God let bad things happen to Job so he could learn. The relationship between Job and God is direct while the relationship between Athena and Odysseus is romantic because Athena develops feelings for him because of his intelligence. In both cases, a God or upper power was there to help in times of struggle and weakness. Both of the upper powers accepted and liked the people they helped. Odysseus doesn’t figure out it was Athena that was helping him until the end of the Odyssey. The Greeks have many Gods while the Hebrews only have one God. These stories suggest that the Hebrews and Greeks believed that their Gods protected them. Women's role in The Odyssey...