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women in the odyssey - Coggle Diagram
women in the odyssey
penelope
virtuous wife, traditional greek values
shares characteristics with her husband, cunning
homophrosyne, like minded lovers
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"there is nothing better or finer than when two people of one heart and mind keep house as man and wife"
"My dear nurse', the sensible Penelope said, 'the gods have driven you crazy"
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"I, who pass my days in mourning for the best of husbands"
"she listened, tears poured from Penelope's eyeys and drenched her cheeks"
calypso/circe
calypso keeps odysseus on her island, only letting him leave when hermes gets involved
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"cold lover, ardent lady" (calypso)
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"for a whole year, feasting on lavish quantaites of meat and mellow wine" (circe)
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nausicaa
shows good xenia by aiding odysseus at the river, allowing him to bathe and eat
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"Nausicaa, tall and beautiful as a goddess"
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"we must look after him, since all strangers as beggars come under the protection of Zeus"
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