There is a rainbow of women represented in this epic poem. Even though there may be a great diversity among the women in themselves, they basically share the same role. They encounter Odyseeus and show him a better passage way to his way home. The difference between them show the reader that the women from this poem are not like any other. And that each have to work with the hardships of a man led society which includes hunting and warfare.

There are also the threatening women of this epic. On of them was Kalypso, a sea nymph, who's only hope is to make Odysseus her husband and in return offers him immortality. With her presence she manages to show us that despite a mans temptation Odysseus is able to remain faithful to Penelope. There is also Circe who is able to get all men e

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