All 21 Uses
mentor
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- Next to stand was Mentor, comrade in arms of the prince Odysseus, an old man now.†
Chpt 2 *
- Leokritos, Euenor's son, replied to him: "Mentor, what mischief are you raking up?†
Chpt 2
- Halitherses and Mentor will speed the traveller; they can help him: they were his father's friends.†
Chpt 2
- Athena was nearby and came to him, putting on Mentor's figure and his tone, the warm voice in a lucid flight of words: "You'll never be fainthearted or a fool, Telemakhos, if you have your father's spirit; he finished what he cared to say, and what he took in hand he brought to pass.†
Chpt 2
- Then to Telemakhos the grey-eyed goddess appeared again with Mentor's form and voice, calling him out of the lofty emptied hall: "Telemakhos, your crew of righting men is ready at the oars, and waiting for you; come on, no point in holding up the sailing.†
Chpt 2
- But clear-headed Telemakhos replied: "Mentor, how can I do it, how approach him?†
Chpt 3
- Telemakhos replied: "Mentor, grievously though we miss my father, why go on as if that homecoming could happen?†
Chpt 3
- Mentor I noted going aboard-or a god who looked like Mentor.†
Chpt 4
- Mentor I noted going aboard-or a god who looked like Mentor.†
Chpt 4
- The strange thing is, I saw Lord Mentor here in the first light yesterday-although he sailed five days ago for Pylos.†
Chpt 4
- Next he saw sitting some way off, apart, Mentor, with Antiphos and Halitherses, friends of his father's house in years gone by.†
Chpt 17
- She wore the guise of Mentor, and Odysseus appealed to her in joy: "O Mentor, join me in this fight!†
Chpt 22
- She wore the guise of Mentor, and Odysseus appealed to her in joy: "O Mentor, join me in this fight!†
Chpt 22
- Cries came from the suitors, and Agelaos, Damastor's son, called out: "Mentor, don't let Odysseus lead you astray to fight against us on his side.†
Chpt 22
- In the enemies' teeth learn how Mentor, son of Alkimos, repays fair dealing!†
Chpt 22
- Agelaos rallied them with his plan of battle: "Friends, our killer has come to the end of his rope, and much good Mentor did him, that blowhard, dropping in.†
Chpt 22
- I saw with my own eyes someone divine who fought beside him, in the shape and dress of Mentor; it was a god who shone before Odysseus, a god who swept the suitors down the hall dying in droves.†
Chpt 24
- You would not heed me nor the captain, Mentor; would not put down the riot of your sons.†
Chpt 24
- Now from the air Athena, Zeus's daughter, appeared in Mentor's guise, with Mentor's voice, making Odysseus' heart grow light.†
Chpt 24
- Now from the air Athena, Zeus's daughter, appeared in Mentor's guise, with Mentor's voice, making Odysseus' heart grow light.†
Chpt 24
- Both parties later swore to terms of peace set by their arbiter, Athena, daughter of Zeus who bears the stormcloud as a shield —though still she kept the form and voice of Mentor.†
Chpt 24
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.