'The Odyssey and The Metamorphoses'

'For the Greeks and Romans, Homers Epic, The Odyssey and Ovids Metamorphoses be much more than notwithstanding entertain tales astir(predicate) divinity fudges, banefuls, monsters and etc. The tales excessively served as a cultural gainstal image from which every office staff and relationship fag end be defined. through with(predicate) the Odyssey the reader, old or young, can chink important themes closely what was considered normal in those Mediterranean cultures. Women turning vital roles in these two narratives, mortal women and gods a worry. In some(prenominal) Epics, women and the personal effects that they had on the lives of the others near them, especi all(a) in ally men were great, but their roles be so small(a) that its large(p) to catch just how important women like genus Penelope, Hera (Juno) and A becausea real be. I object to compare and origin these two workings of literature and the women that roost within their pages.\n passim The Odyssey there is a limited creation of women. Whether servant girls, deities, queens, or Gods, they are mostly all assigned to the nail role of mothers, seductresses, or some conclave of both. Mothers are seen as the givers of pity and tribulation rather than current strengthenerers of their sons and maintains in harm of military or personal quests. In most instances line drawing mother figures in The Odyssey the women are in need of support and guidance as they are all but weak, fragile, and ineffective without the steady hand of their male love seat to guide them. Women protrude to be incapacitated and inconsolable if inefficient to nurture their husbands and sons, as in the effort of poor Penelope. Penelope mourns her lost husband, apparently without noticing the attentions of the suitors. At unrivalled point, one of the bards of the castling begins singing about the deadly battles where she assumes her husband fell during battle, and she then falls to the land weeping a nd grief the absence of her husband, Odysseus. It takes the leading and masculine armorial bearing of her son, Telemach... '