The Women In The Persephone In The Odyssey

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The female characters seem to all have pretty different roles throughout the unit but they do have similarities . Most of the women tend to be guides and help assist the men. Like in the Odyssey , Athena is sent down to help Telemachus and Odysseus she provides her wisdom and speaks to the council of the gods for them. As well in the Odyssey Penelope, Odysseus wife feels pressure to remarry but wants to remain faithful to her love Odysseus she still has hope that Odysseus is out there and continues to stay strong when all the suitors are pressuring her into marriage. Persephone in The Odyssey was as well a very strong goddess she carried the effect of the curses of the men in the underworld. In Orpheus and Eurydice the women are very determined