This paper assesses how mentoring has historically been an integral part of human development, a modern implication for Human Resource Development (HRD), with the purpose of reconstructing the Homeric Model of Mentoring as an Open System of Educational Management. It highlights evidence of mentorship behaviors throughout human civilization and across diverse cultural groups, with a focus on Homer’s Odyssey, as well as during the pre-Homeric and prehistoric eras. The historicity of mentoring is offered as a timeless cultural phenomenon, without imposing the data or limiting the analytical perspective. The theoretical approach selected was to conduct a literature review of primary and secondary sources, with an ad hoc utilization of elements of the context of the reality, material and non-material. Based on theoretical knowledge and preconceptions, this paper’s conclusions are subject to the limitations of its specifications, bypassing the quantitative component, while the interest in expanded future research is revived. Pointing out the evolutionary stages of the described mentoring relationship, this study also reveals “hidden” mentors and elements of mentorship activity in a variety of ancient civilizations such as the Minoans, the Chinese, the Israelites, the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians and the Indus Valley civilization. The historic mentorship examples discussed in this paper show evidence of genuine mentoring characteristics such as nurturing, advising, counseling, guiding, and teaching, reflective of modern mentoring relationships and mentoring culture.
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