Apollo Character Traits In Odysseus

Apollo Character Traits

First Character Trait: Selfishness

Throughout the book, Apollo only wanted to gain his powers as a god again and go back to Mount. Olympus, cared for only his own troubles, and concern for only himself (only in the beginning though). This all proves

The main reason for Apollo wanting to finish his quest, which requires Apollo to find and restore the other four oracles, is to regain his position in the Olympian Council and earn his godly powers and privileges back. The apartment that Apollo arrived to “ had no grand throne room, no colonnades ,no terraces or banquet halls or even a thermal room.... I did find it odd there was no landing deck for flying chariots.”(pg 29). This example shows that

Apollo would have “plunged straight into the woods” (pg. 178) to find them, but Chiron makes him and the other campers to take a shower. This show concern by Apollo wanting all his children to be safe and sound and not out of his sight. Also when he does find them he wanted to “ The second reason is when any of his friends get hurt somehow. When his friend Paolo got one of his legs sawed off, Apollo does everything in his power to help recover his leg. He “tended to Paolo Montes until I (Apollo) he was out of pain” (pg. 181). Apollo demonstrates that he has concern for his friends by spending a lot of time helping Paolo and doing anything that could help Paolo ease his pain. Finally it is when Apollo get worried about Meg when she is stuck in a special type of goo made by ants. To free Meg, Apollo has to throw a geranium seed down at the goo to make the goo incinerate. The seeds grew and were “bursting from her neck to her armpit. “How many seeds did that?”(Apollo asking Meg)” One” “Then this many (dozen) will choke you.”(pg. 261) This is proof that Apollo is concerned for others because he does not want to do so many that he will hurt her in some way and endanger her