Women's role in "The Odyssey"

Women in the odyssey normally seem be regarded as weaker and less power holders than men; like women everywhere else during this period of time, women have the roll of the controlled, and men the controllers. Throughout history women have bee recognized as having very strong influences on men. This is the main reason why feminine sexuality is dangerous to men. It seems that homer takes the actual “power” that women have over men, and …

…of his female characters. On one hand, it seems that Homer was kind of a sexist person, in that he made all of his women very manipulative and tricky. One the other hand, even though his women did not seem to have very thoughtful or extremely kind personalities, they all were very powerful. Which almost seems to say that Homer probably had some animosity towards the control that women actually posses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** The Odyssey