Mortal Women In The Odyssey

If you were a great hero on a journey to come home after being away for twenty years would you rather have the company of faithful and loving mortal wife or a powerful immortal that could decide to kill you at any moment?
To the woman of the Odyssey mortal means being loyal, angry, sad, caring, faithful and kind. There are a lot of mortal women in the Odyssey, but the best examples of what mortal women do and stand for are Penelope, Eurycleia and Helen.
Penelope who is the queen of Ithaca and wife of Odysseus is the perfect example of a mortal woman in the Odyssey because she is prideful, loyal, angry and sad, as shown in this next quote. “'Eurymachos, all my excellence, my beauty and figure, were ruined by the immortals at that time when the Argives took ship for Ilion, and with them went my husband, Odysseus. If he were to come back to me and take care of my life, then my reputation would be more great and splendid.” (Book 18) Penelope’s words show that she has pride in herself and in her husband, and even though she might be getting angry at him for being gone so long, she will always be loyal. Which is really all you can ask for in a woman when you are gone for twenty years right?
Eurycleia the old, faithful and
Although she kind of helped Odysseus in the end, she first used her powers for something a little more fun, “… she gave them a tap of her wand at once and herded them into pens; for now they had pigs’ heads and grunts and bristles, pigs all over except that their minds, miserably shut up in the pigsty.” (p. 125) Circe turns Odysseus’ crew into pigs just because she can. Immortal women in the Odyssey do stuff just because they want to or just because they can, as a result of this people of the Odyssey are always forced to live on their toes. Nevertheless immortal women are a must in the Odyssey especially those who are willing to help like