The Odyssey is an epic poem by Homer. It is a story of the journey of Odysseus coming back to his wife and son in Ithaca after being away from them for 20 years. The ancient Greeks valued strength, bravery, wit, great stories and beauty. So this tale is centred on a male who holds all of those traits. This epic tale has been an inspiration for many literary creations including Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad is a feminist approach from the point of view of Odysseus’ wife
Portrayed: The women of Ancient Greece The epic poem The Odyssey by the ancient Greek writer Homer,The Iliad, and the Odyssey movie shows us what women had to go through in the ancient Greek society. The women in the story The Odyssey were portrayed as servants to men. In Greek society, we can infer that men do not respect women as they should. They see women as a lower class. The author treats the women as less important than men in their society. The women, both human and Goddess, played a
Women in ancient myths and folktales often play a key part that sheds much light on to their male counterparts. Though these epic tales were written in the midst of what we understand today to be a patriarchal day and age, the role of women is as important as their male counterparts. Even though this isnt as clearly established as it is today, it can be understood that there was a vague inkling or understanding of it in these ancient times. From reading these texts one can assume that only dangerous
The women who lived in ancient Greece would know just how many more advantages men had over them. Whether they were left without any assistance or treated poorly, these women were never treated as equally as men were. Many of these situations occur in stories of ancient Greece, such as The Iliad and The Odyssey, and The Odyssey film. In both the book and the film, the women are not nearly as powerful as men. Because of this, men were seen as superior over women. In ancient Greece, women would almost
positive deception and how the female characters in The Odyssey sought to deceive to save themselves or their loved ones. Reading the Euripides’s tragedies Medea and Hippolytus I have found that deception in the female characters come from revenge and to protect their own reputation. Medea deceived so that Jason could feel the same pain that she has endured. Since Hippolytus did not worship Aphrodite she resulted to act in treachery. The women in both of Euripides works went to extreme measures to
The depiction of women in the Greek poem The Odyssey shows what the Greeks thought of them and their roles in society. The same attitudes and stereotypes about women that the Greeks had still exist in modern-day cultures around the world. These stereotypes and roles include men viewing women as possessions, the only place for a women is in the home, and the superiority of men to women. In examining the Greek culture versus modern-day societies, it’s difficult to see that many similarities between
Throughout the plot of The Odyssey, the main hero Odysseus encounters a few women on his journey home to Ithaca. He even had affairs with a couple of them. Despite caring about his wife as much as he does, Odysseus had succumbed to temptation more than once. There were three other main female characters that he encountered during the epic. He met Calypso, Circe, Athena and at the end he finally reunites with his wife Penelope. Odysseus has a different relationship with each woman and they each treat
Professor Smith explains the evolutions the Odyssey has undergone to become a written text, the significant impact that Homer had on the Romans, and a novel theme that appears throughout the Odyssey. The Odyssey has undergone numerous transitions in order to become the text that it is today. The Odyssey originated from an oral culture, meaning that messages and stories were verbally communicated in the form of speech or songs. Originally, rhapsodes would perform a group of songs and create a story
Women in the Hebrew Bible and The Odyssey all live in the patriarchal society, in which males have the main power and females are only inferior to males. Although the stories occur in the same type of society, the author of The Odyssey, Homer, probably considers women in distinct ways with the authors of the Hebrew Bible, because women in The Odyssey are actually less influential than women in the biblical society. In the Bible, what women do can determine the development of the stories and some
The Iliad and the Odyssey certainly contains strong female characters, both immortals and mortals. The Greek poet’s Homer’s, (being one or a mix of different people) had creates these epic tales to show the man’s heroic quest. But with as close examination we can see that women plays a huge role in those epic tales. We can find all kind of types of women in this epic poem, there is strong-willed, the damsel-in-distress types, wicked and vengeful women. We even have the women who cause the downfall