Part one of term paper
In the Odessey, Homer has focused on the masculine characters as the most prominent. This is to be expected when one looks at the time period in which he lived, but there are some notable exceptions of some outstanding female characters. This does not mean that women were the focus of the story, they were not. What this means is that there ...

Part two of term paper
... of Athena helping Odysseus throughout his journey back to Ithaca would be her plea to her father, Zeus where she states: …my own heart is broken for Odysseus, the master mind of war, so long a castaway upon an island in the running sea; …But such desire is in him merely to see the hearthsmoke leaping upward from his own island, that he longs to die. Are you not moved by this, Lord of Olympos? Had you no pleasure from Odysseus' offerings beside the Argive ships, on Troy's wide seaboard? ...