Women in the Odyssey

Frieda Torgueman March 14, 2001 The Odyssey of Homer Regardless of the way an individual describes society in a given time period, women, over the course of the years, have always been an important issue to focus on. Rarely are they treated as true equals; neither in reality nor in the writing. Homer’s Odyssey is one such writing, which poetically describes the daily life of the Greeks in antiquity. Although in his work, women are treated …

…which women were treated as creatures of lesser status, misogyny is an unnecessary term to use when describing the Odyssey. There is no extreme hatred of women by men, and although some characters make generalizations about women, the reader can see for himself that there are exceptional women in Homer’s work who don’t fit into those general categories. Misogynist views are certainly a problem in the world, but not in Homer’s Odyssey.