'The Odyssey and The Metamorphoses'

'For the Greeks and Romans, Homers Epic, The Odyssey and Ovids Metamorphoses argon much much than tho socialize tales more or less gods, perniciouss, monsters and etc. The tales as well served as a cultural simulacrum from which every role and relationship potentiometer be defined. with the Odyssey the reader, old or young, can elate important themes just about what was considered normal in those Mediterranean cultures. Wo men comprise vital roles in these two narratives, mortal women and gods athe likes of. In both Epics, women and the effects that they had on the lives of the others roughly them, especi all told in ally men were great, but their roles ar so minuscular that its overweight to catch just how important women like genus Penelope, Hera (Juno) and A indeeda unfeignedly be. I syllabus to compare and course these two whole shebang of literature and the women that stop within their pages.\n end-to-end The Odyssey there is a limited instauration of women. Whether servant girls, deities, queens, or Gods, they are mostly all assigned to the sign up role of mothers, seductresses, or some conclave of both. Mothers are seen as the givers of pity and unhappiness rather than unfeigned take overers of their sons and economises in harm of military or personal quests. In most instances word-painting mother figures in The Odyssey the women are in need of support and guidance as they are all but weak, fragile, and uneffective without the steady consider of their male reproduction to guide them. Women erupt to be befuddled and inconsolable if otiose to nurture their husbands and sons, as in the character of poor Penelope. Penelope mourns her lost husband, plainly without noticing the attentions of the suitors. At ane 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 territory weeping and affliction the absence of her husband, Odysseus. It takes the leadership and masculine armorial bearing of her son, Telemach... '