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- proper noun Greek mythology
Odysseus 's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility to raiseOdysseus 's sonTelemachus , whileOdysseus was away fighting in Troy
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This is what they call the Mentor Marsh and this is what they call fragmites and cattails.
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I believe the payload is the fifth in the series of what we call Mentor spacecraft, a.k.a.
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The word "mentor" comes from the name of Mentor, a character in the Odyssey, in whose guise the goddess Athena gives advice to young Telemachus.
Week in Words Erin McKean 2011
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Power An immortal who lives on one of Saturn's moons and whose dad is called Mentor well, like, duh, Starfox ages slowly and doesn't get hurt when he falls over.
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Since the days of the ancient Greeks, when Odysseus left his son Telemachus in Mentor's care while he went off to Troy, the pairing of mentor with pupil has been an intellectual and artistic tradition in the West.
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"My Mentor" is a meditation on writing and the special relationship between a mentor and his mentee.
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"My Mentor" is a meditation on writing and the special relationship between a mentor and his mentee.
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My Mentor is a tribute to Maxwell as both a friend and as a writer — one who is curiously overlooked.
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My Mentor is a tribute to Maxwell as both a friend and as a writer — one who is curiously overlooked.
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Since the days of the ancient Greeks, when Odysseus left his son Telemachus in Mentor's care while he went off to Troy, the pairing of mentor with pupil has been an intellectual and artistic tradition in the West.
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