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Women In The Odyssey: Valued Beings Or Forgotten Slaves?
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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 ....
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....torm to kill Odysseus. As the waves crash all around
his ship, a woman, a goddess named Ino, gave him a veil that would protect
him from the sea. Once he has put this on, Athene calms down the winds and
sets him on a course with the North Wind to the land of the Phaeacians. As
he approaches the isle, he sees huge rocks that are about to crash into him.
The poem says that Athene was the one who put the idea into his head to
grab onto it quickly with both hands. She is an angel on his shoulder.
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