While some of the female characters in Homer's The Illiad are powerful goddesses, others are merely helpless mortal women. Hera is one of the most powerful forces in the poem. She holds more power over Zeus, and the other characters, than many of the male gods. "You'll set me curry-worrying with Hera and make her scold me again! She is always at me as it is before them all...You just go away again now, and don't let Hera see" (Homer 20). Even though Zeus is king, at times even he is reluctant to cross his wife. Athena is another powerful goddess with a strong will. Throughout the poem, she is ready and willing to accompany Hera while she helps the Achaians during
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