When she walks the town they murmur and gaze, as though she were a goddess. ... The beautiful Nausicaa is also hailed as a goddess. ... But there and all my days until I die may I invoke you as I would a goddess, princess, to whom I owe my life" (Homer p.307). Odysseus prays to her as he would a god and she is a mortal and no god-like power. ... Most of the descriptions given to the many women that Odysseus sees in the land of the dead merely describe their great beauty, the gods that conceived their children, and the greatness of these children. ...

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