ULOGA BOŽANSTVA U TELEMAHOVU ODRASTANJU
THE ROLE OF DIVINITY IN TELEMACHUS' MATURING

Summary/Abstract: The theme of the author’s research mostly concerns the Telemachy, the first four books of the Odyssey which are entirely attributed to Homer. The attention is focused to the place and role of divinity in the maturing of a young person – Telemachus. He is beloved son of the world voyager, king of Ithaca, Odyssey, and his faithful wife Penelope. Already as the newborn he was deprived of his father who was unable to avoid the Trojan War. Therefore Telemachus was growing up without his father’s warm but strict guiding hand. His mother didn’t have enough time for him since she was ruthlessly courted by man that thought they could marry her and take over Odysseys’ estate and royalty. In this difficult situation for Telemachus’ education, the author of the Odyssey tries to find the light of hope for this ‘orphan of war’ and the child of broken family, that was besides all this exposed to death threats whenever courters felt that his quest to find his father, endangered their plans of their marrying his own mother and usurpation of the estate. For the author of the Odyssey this situation was so difficult, risky and unpromising that he could not let people resolve it, no matter how powerful, wise, clever and resourceful they were, but he called upon Gods for their resourcefulness and ingenuity which were very well known among the Old Greeks in the similar situations. Old Greeks considered certain gods to be good allies, while the other were a part of the opposite group and brought troubles. Besides evil people, the gods were also the source of the evil. People prayed to the good gods, and avoided the evil ones.

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