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Mentor

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Canonical name
Mentor
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
This is Ulysses’ actual friend Mentor; Minerva separately assumes his likeness and voice in the current source.

Aliases

1

son of Alcimus

Descriptive reference · Disguised

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

3
·Direct

Mentor is Ulysses’ friend, left in charge of everything with full authority over the servants, and speaks plainly and honestly.

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Mentor {20} who had been a friend of Ulysses, and had been left in charge of everything with full authority over the servants, rose to speak. He, then, plainly and in all honesty addressed them
·Direct

Mentor is shocked that the people sit idle instead of stopping the scandalous conduct.

See evidence text
I am shocked at the way in which you all sit still without even trying to stop such scandalous goings on
·Direct

Leiocritus names Mentor as one of Ulysses’ old friends and says he should speed Telemachus on his journey if the boy goes at all.

See evidence text
his father’s old friends, Mentor and Halitherses, speed this boy on his journey, if he goes at all

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
Mentor {20} who had been a friend of Ulysses
·Reported
I saw Mentor here myself yesterday morning
·Direct
Mentor, Antiphus, and Halitherses
·Disguised
Minerva came up to them, having assumed the voice and form of Mentor.
·Remembered
you would not listen to me, nor yet to Mentor
·Disguised
having assumed the form and voice of Mentor
·Disguised
Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 13

With these words he sat down, and Mentor {20} who had been a friend of Ulysses, and had been left in charge of everything with full authority over the servants, rose to speak. He, then, plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus: