A Comparison Of Greek Goddesses In The Iliad And The Odyssey

In the Greek culture there are gods and goddesses that represent different parts of mortal life. The Greek hero Odysseus worshiped the Goddesses Athena before he went to war in Troy. After the battle at Troy he upsets the Greek god Poseidon. The Greek hero Achilles was the son of an Immortal mother Thetis and a mortal father Peleus. This was not uncommon in Greek culture some gods and goddesses would mingle with mortals and have children or just relations.
In these Greek dramas there is The Iliad and The Odyssey in which there are Greek heroes. In The Odyssey the hero Odysseus has gone to fight a war in Troy. After the war he makes a statement to the god Poseidon, who tells him he will never make it back to Ithaca. As he sails home he is off
course and finds himself in a horrible predicament. He is forced to use his cunning ways to escape from a Cyclops named Polyphemus.
There was only death that followed him on his way home they were very close encounters. Therefore now “We have Cyclops the tyrant; the love-struck sorceress Circe, who epitomises desire and sexual promiscuity” (Sandra). From then on “Odysseus felt nothing but sorrows in his heart as he sailed the salty seas” (Rosenberg). Circe offers her company something unnamed in the refreshing meal of cheese, barley, honey, and Pramnian wine this is how she turns men into animals (Warner). Odysseus was warned about the witch Circe who would return his men only if he went to bed with her.
He spent five years there years he thought were days until the Goddesses Circe explained it all to him. It was then when Odysseus realized that Circe's knowledge is "baneful," and that her witchcraft also implies mastery of the natural properties of things (Warner). Circe is a dread goddess with a human voice, the nymph with lovely braids, an awesome power too that can speak with human voice (Warner). Circe house of polished stone with its beckoning smoke, standing on open ground after the dense screen of oak scrub and forest with the drugged victims--the mountain lions and wolves--gambolling around it, fawning, unmanned by her magic (Warner). While she has guest she does not only command through language; she is commanded by it; she respects its binding force, its sovereignty over the speaker's desire (Warner).
Circe told Odysseus the person that could help him get home was the God Teiresias in the place called Hades. It was there that he learned of his mother’s death and the suffrage of his wife and son when he visited the underworld.