Part one of term paper
? When reading the Odyssey, it is hard not to notice that women do play strong roles. During this time period and up until the twentieth century when women were given suffrage, women were looked down upon. Homer instead creates several strong female characters such as Penelope, Athene, and Calypso. All of these women are not only a main part ...

Part two of term paper
... do not stay at home or at least remain idle. Athene is the heroine in the story and the main woman that will be looked at, for it is she who protects Odysseus from harm. Homer writes: Pallas Athene, daughter of Zeus, who always stands Beside you and guards you in all sorts of troubles (page 181, lines 300-301). Up until World War II, women stood by the side and watched men go off to war and then waited hopefully for their return. But in the Odyssey, it is a woman who saves the day several tim ...