Paragraph 3     In this paragraph we will work on handling evidence to illustrate your arguments. Key issues are: using new evidence to advance your arguments, integrating your evidence fluidly into your argument, analyzing your evidence, when using evidence is appropriate, and quotation format.

     It is also heroic when used by other characters, such as Athene.Athene uses it to help Odysseus, Telemachos (with Athene's help) uses trickery to escape the suitors, and indeed, even the suitors and Aigisthos use it. Athene, the goddess of metis (cleverness or wisdom) disguises herself in order to protect Odysseus. Athene appeared to Odysseus "in the likeness / of a young girl, a little maid" (Odyssey, p. 111), in order to help Odysseus learn the customs of the Phaiakians: "the grey-eyed goddess Athene answered him: / ‘Then, my friend and father, I will show you the house that you ask me / to show, since the king lives close beside my own stately father' (Odyssey, p. 112)." She also uses disguises to protect Odysseus's son Telemachos: "... Now the gray-eyed goddess Athene thought what to do next. She went on her way, into the house of godlike Odysseus, and there she drifted a sweet slumber over the suitors, and struck them as they drank, and knocked the goblets out of their hands, and they went to sleep in the city, nor did any one sit long, after sleep was fallen upon his eyelids. Afterward gray-eyed Athene spoke to Telemachos when she called him out from the well-established palace, likening herself to Mentor in voice and appearance: "Telemachos already now your strong-greaved companions are sitting at the oars, and waiting for you to set forth. So let us go, and not delay our voyaging longer...."" (Odyssey, p. 49).  Here we see that Athene uses trickery to make the suitors falls asleep, then disguises herself as Mentor in order to help Telemachos sneak out in the middle of the night. Trickery is so pervasive in The Odyssey that even the suitors use it, as the text states on p. 87: "the Achaians waited in ambush" (Odyssey, p. 87) for Telemachos so that they might usurp his place as Odysseus's heir, and Klytaimestra and Aigisthos use it too: they "led [Agamemnon] in all unsuspicious of death, and feasted him / and killed him feasting" (Odyssey, p. 79). Everyone seems to use trickery in The Odyssey!