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Suffering is tightly wound with what it means to be human, yet it is through our sorrows that humans are connected with immortality.
In both The Odyssey and other Homeric epics the gods rarely come to the aid of humans, yet when they do it is often out of pity.
Odysseus is a very tragic character in the epic, and is thus continually bound with divinity through their pity for him. After Odysseus loses his raft when journeying to the island of the Phaeacians and is tumbling through the endless waves, the goddess Ino “pitied Odysseus, tossed, tormented so” (Book V, line 370). The goddess offers her scarf to him and then advises him to “tie it around your waist it is immortal.
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