Shawn Eni gives us a summary of the women in The Iliad and The Odyssey:
- Helen's beauty sparks a war.
- Athena is a strategic goddess guiding Odysseus.
- Penelope embodies clever loyalty.
- Circe turns men into pigs, which frankly is still the most realistic female character arc in literature.
- Calypso traps the hero on an island for seven years.
- Cassandra can literally see the future but nobody listens, making her the first woman in recorded history to experience a meeting.
- The Sirens weaponize music.
- Nausicaa saves Odysseus when he washes up naked and useless.
- Andromache gives one of the most devastating anti-war speeches in the Iliad.
- Hecuba is basically the emotional wreckage of empire in human form.
- Aphrodite starts half the problems in Western civilization by being hot and petty.
- Hera is running divine opposition research.
- Thetis gets Zeus involved because Achilles is having a workplace dispute.
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