All 21 Uses
mentor
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
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- Book II ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA—SPEECHES OF TELEMACHUS AND OF THE SUITORS—TELEMACHUS MAKES HIS PREPARATIONS AND STARTS FOR PYLOS WITH MINERVA DISGUISED AS MENTOR.†
Book 2
- With these words he sat down, and Mentor (endnote 20) who had been a friend of Ulysses, and had been left in charge of everything with full authority over the servants, rose to speak.†
Book 2
- Leiocritus, son of Evenor, answered him saying, "Mentor, what folly is all this, that you should set the people to stay us?†
Book 2
- Now, therefore, do you people go about your business, and let his father's old friends, Mentor and Halitherses, speed this boy on his journey, if he goes at all—which I do not think he will, for he is more likely to stay where he is till some one comes and tells him something.†
Book 2
- As he thus prayed, Minerva came close up to him in the likeness and with the voice of Mentor.†
Book 2
- Then she took the form and voice of Mentor, and called Telemachus to come outside.†
Book 2
- "But how, Mentor," replied Telemachus, "dare I go up to Nestor, and how am I to address him?†
Book 3
- "Mentor," answered Telemachus, "do not let us talk about it any more.†
Book 3
- As for those who went with him they were the best young men we have, and I saw Mentor go on board as captain—or some god who was exactly like him.†
Book 4
- I cannot understand it, for I saw Mentor here myself yesterday morning, and yet he was then setting out for Pylos.†
Book 4 *
- Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor, Antiphus, and Halitherses, old friends of his father's house, and they made him tell them all that had happened to him.†
Book 17
- Then Jove's daughter Minerva came up to them, having assumed the voice and form of Mentor.†
Book 22
- Ulysses was glad when he saw her and said, "Mentor, lend me your help, and forget not your old comrade, nor the many good turns he has done you.†
Book 22
- "Mentor," he cried, "do not let Ulysses beguile you into siding with him and fighting the suitors.†
Book 22
- Come on, my good fellow, stand by my side and see how Mentor, son of Alcimus shall fight your foes and requite your kindnesses conferred upon him.†
Book 22
- Agelaus shouted to them and said, "My friends, he will soon have to leave off, for Mentor has gone away after having done nothing for him but brag.†
Book 22
- I myself saw an immortal god take the form of Mentor and stand beside him.†
Book 24
- On this pale fear laid hold of them, and old Halitherses, son of Mastor, rose to speak, for he was the only man among them who knew both past and future; so he spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying, "Men of Ithaca, it is all your own fault that things have turned out as they have; you would not listen to me, nor yet to Mentor, when we bade you check the folly of your sons who were doing much wrong in the wantonness of their hearts—wasting the substance and dishonouring the wife of a chieftain who they thought would not return.†
Book 24
- Then Jove's daughter Minerva came up to them, having assumed the form and voice of Mentor.†
Book 24
- Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties.†
Book 24
- Is it possible not to suspect that the name Mentor was coined upon that of Nestor?†
Book Foot
Definitions:
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(1)
(mentor) someone who guides and advises another who is less experienced; or the act of providing such guidance
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, in the ancient Greek story of The Odyssey, Mentor was a friend of Odysseus.