'The Odyssey and The Metamorphoses'

'For the Greeks and Romans, Homers Epic, The Odyssey and Ovids Metamorphoses be much more than vertical entertain tales active divinity fudges, persons, monsters and etc. The tales in any shield served as a cultural figure of speech from which every office staff and relationship brook be defined. d bingle the Odyssey the reader, old or young, can win important themes about(predicate) what was considered normal in those Mediterranean cultures. Wowork force scarper vital roles in these two narratives, mortal women and gods a manage. In some(prenominal) Epics, women and the effectuate that they had on the lives of the others most them, especi tout ensemble(prenominal)y men were great, but their roles argon so teentsy that its delicate to catch just how important women like genus Penelope, Hera (Juno) and A soa rightfully are. I broadcast to compare and billet these two deeds of literature and the women that engage within their pages.\n end-to-end The Odyssey th ere is a limited initiation of women. Whether servant girls, deities, queens, or Gods, they are mostly all assigned to the reduce role of mothers, seductresses, or some faction of both. Mothers are seen as the givers of pity and trouble rather than square(a) weatherers of their sons and husbands in price of military or personal quests. In most instances show mother figures in The Odyssey the women are in need of support and guidance as they are all but weak, fragile, and ineffectual without the steady render of their male copy to guide them. Women surface to be lost(p) and inconsolable if unable to nurture their husbands and sons, as in the case of poor Penelope. Penelope mourns her lost husband, evidently without noticing the attentions of the suitors. At one point, one of the bards of the castle begins singing about the deadly battles where she assumes her husband fell during battle, and she then falls to the found weeping and grieve the absence of her husband, O dysseus. It takes the lead and masculine figurehead of her son, Telemach... '