Evaluation:
Published: 18.04.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Appearance of Women in Odyssey', 1.
  • Essays 'Appearance of Women in Odyssey', 2.
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Looking back on women in ancient civilizations we see a variety of different ways in which they have been regarded. In ancient Greece, women were mostly subservient to men; yet, in writing the Odyssey Homer gives us a slightly broader outlook on a woman's role in society. Not only does Homer expose his reader to human females as well as goddesses. In most ancient stories women are not crucial to the plot. In Homer's two works the Iliad and Odyssey th…

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