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Role of women in the Odyssey, Helping Odysseus - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 'shining veil'
      - 'mourning the best of husbands.'
      - pg11
        
        she comes down the staircase. 'not alone but with two waiting women in attendance.'
      - 'I eat my heart out in longing for Odysseus.' p225
      - she listens to Telemachus when he cuts her off. 'I am the master of the house.' and then she 'took her son's sensible words to heart and returned to her quarters.'
      - She shames disloyal maids, good wife and woman 'you bold creature, you shameless bitch.' p252
      - Makes herself sound better and more loyal as she compares herself to Helen of Troy, the adulterer in Penelope. By stating this she highlights her loyalty to Odysseus. Pg 306 book 23
    - - calls Antinous an 'arrogant and evil schemer.'
      - 'you are causing me great anguish.'
      - highlights their betrayal by stating how they have forgotten their place and Xenia. 'it is sacrilege for someone who has received mercy to plot against someone in need of mercy.'
        
        'or do you not know that your father sought refuge here.'
      - Breaking the rules of the Odyssey by not being tactful in her speech pg 220. But is justified. indignation. She displays another value of the Odyssey which is 'not taking things lying down.' and she certainly doesn't do that here.
        
        'I command you now put an end to all this and make the rest obey you.'
    - - she calls the suitors out for they're poor behaviour and tricks them into giving her gifts.
        'yours by no means the right time and honoured way for rivals to conduct their suit for a lady of a good family and a rich man's daughter.'
        'such suitors bring their own cattle and sheep to make a banquet for the lady's friends, and also gives her valuable presents.'
        'they do not enjoy free meals at her expense.'
        Book 18 pg246
        
        'extorting gifts from her suitors and bewitching them by her persuasive words.'
      - Laertes death shroud.
        
        she tells the suitors to 'restrain your ardour do not urge on this marriage until I have done this work.' Pg 253
        
        'I used to weave the web, but every night with the torches set beside it and undid the work.' pg 254
      - axes and the bow book 21 pg 278
        
        she sets an impossible challenge to the suitors in order to trick them into thinking that they migght be able to have her.
        
        'the prize stands before you.' her and the bow
        
        'whoever strings the bow most easily and shoots an arrow through every one of these twelve axes,with that man I will go.'
      - the bed and and Odysseus
        
        she tests Odysseus once again by asking about their marital bed.
        
        she says 'come, Eurycleia, move the great bed outside the bedroom the he himself built.' The bed can not in fact be moved and she know that the only the real Odysseus would know that.
- - - - My every impulse bends to what is right. Not iron, trust me,
        the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.
      - her name comes from the Greek meaning 'I hide.' as she hides Odysseus from the rest of the world.
- - - - She does do this though after this time, she gives valuable information as to how to get to the underworld and what animals to sacrifice when they arrive there.
- - - - Athene heard his prayer...refrained from appearing...out of deference to her father's brother Poseidon" not intervening because of the hierarchy of the gods.