As a person is growing up, their parents tend to point them in the right direction and they believe that their parents will never steer them wrong. In most cases, this is true. However, there is also a time when their parent’s guidance is not the best suited for the person’s likes, dislikes and hopes of the future. This is when the position of power changes into their hands.
In The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus is guided on every adventure that he goes on by Athena. However, his journey still takes him ten years to get back to his family after the Trojan War, something that he probably had more power over than he gave himself credit for. Or would it have taken even longer had Athena not been there to help him out of predicaments that he seemed to always get into? Perhaps the reason that it took Odysseus so long to get home was that he was being punished for taking lovers other than his wife, such as Circe. His men had to remind him that he had a wife, Penelope, and a son, Telémakhos, waiting for him in Ithaca. But it’s kind of a paradox because had he arrived home earlier, he would have not taken these lovers in his loneliness.
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