# Mentor — The Odyssey character guide

> Mentor in The Odyssey by Homer.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** O Mentor, Malicious Mentor

**First appearance:** 0001-the-odyssey

## Who they are

An Ithacan friend of Ulysses whose form Athene often takes to guide Telemachus.

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