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What did Hermes do for Odysseus?
Hermes’ role in The Odyssey is to guide the traveler Odysseus to return home to Ithaca. He helps Odysseus twice. The first time Hermes helps Odysseus is when he urges him to save his men from Circe. He told Odysseus to ingest the herb moly to combat Circe’s drug.
What was Odysseus doing when Hermes arrives on the island of Calypso?
What is Calypso doing when Hermes arrives? Singing and weaving gold into cloth.
How did Hermes interact with Odysseus?
Hermes meets with Odysseus in disguise and helps him to defeat Circe. He gives him the Moly Plant so he can drink the drugged wine and he tells him what to do and say after so he can get what he wants. Odysseus wants her to release his men before he sleeps with her.
What chapter does Hermes help Odysseus?
More examples: in Odyssey 10.275–305, Hermes in the disguise of a young man, helps [in his role as ἐριούνης] Odysseus to counter Circe’s potions by giving him the plant moly and advice about how to free his comrades.
Why does Hermes give Odysseus moly?
Hermes gives him an herb called moly that will allow Odysseus to resist Circe’s magic, telling him only that it is “dangerous for a mortal man to pluck from the soil but not for deathless gods.
How does Calypso respond when told by Hermes that she must release Odysseus?
Hermes tells Calypso that Zeus commands her to release Odysseus. In response, Calypso angrily shouts that the gods become jealous when goddesses sleep with mortals, though they often sleep with mortal women. She says that she loves Odysseus as a husband and has even offered to make him immortal.
How did Calypso help Odysseus leave the island and why?
What does Calypso do to help Odysseus? She gives him her best wood in the island to build a boat, give him food and drinks for the journey, and she gives him favorable winds. He thinks that Calypso is playing a trick on him because he doesn’t know why she is letting him leave after 10 years.
When Odysseus went to confront Circe he ran into Hermes in what way did Hermes help him?
He ran into Hermes, he gave him a plant called moly to protect Odysseus from Circe’s power. But, Hermes warns Odysseus that he must make the goddess swear that she will play no witch games.
What are two instances where Hermes comes to help Odysseus?
More examples: in Odyssey 10.275–305, Hermes in the disguise of a young man, helps [in his role as ἐριούνης] Odysseus to counter Circe’s potions by giving him the plant moly and advice about how to free his comrades. And of course there is Scroll 11, Odysseus’ trip to Hādēs, where he meets his shipmate Elpenor.
Who sent Hermes to Odysseus?
When the beautiful nymph Calypso imprisons Odysseus with his only son, Athena pleads to Zeus. The God of Thunder sends Hermes. Hence, the nymph honors her word and releases both prisoners. After the messenger of Olympus retold Zeus’s order, Calypso released both prisoners.
How does Calypso react to Hermes?
Calypso rages at the double standard when Hermes announces that she must let Odysseus go. She launches into a rant against the male gods, “unrivaled lords of jealousy” (5.131), who think nothing of gods carousing with mortal women but condemn female gods when they take mortal lovers.
What Hermes tells Calypso?
Hermes tells Calypso that Zeus commands her to release Odysseus. She says that she loves Odysseus as a husband and has even offered to make him immortal. Nevertheless, she agrees to let him go.