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In the Odyssey Homer actually tells the reader very little about the physical appearance of the women. For example Homer describes Penelope very little. When she first appears in the novel Homer describes her as, "Penelope the Wise, tall in her beauty as Artemis or pale-gold Aphrodite, appeared from her high chamber and came down to throw her arms around her son" (Homer, Richard Lattimore, trans., The Odyssey of Homer (Harper Perennial) pg, 34). In this scene it is Penelope's beauty, as she shows herself to the suitors, that inevitably leads them to their deaths. The suitors want her for her beauty and Odysseus kills them because of that. The effect is that these men are only thinking about her beauty and they don't care about what could happen to them when Odysseus returns.
Odysseus meets many women in The Odyssey and each of their appearances directly affects his journey. The first female obstacle that Odysseus and his crew encounter is Kirke. They land on her island while on their quest to finally reach Ithaca. Homer's brief description of her leads the reader to understand how the men fell into her trap. He says, "There we found a woman, or else she was a goddess, working at her loom and singing sweetly; so the men shouted to her and called her, whereon she at once came down, opened the door, and invited us in" (Odyssey, 10:220). The crew assumed that because she sounded sweet and was most likely as beautiful as a goddess that she was harmless. The description of the female leads the men to assume she is good because at the time people related beauty with goodness. In reality she is really a witch and they fall into her trap. Here Homer tells the reader how silly men are in front of beautiful women and this leads them to lose all caution. He says, "When she had given them this and they had drunk it down, next thing she struck them with her wand and drove them into her pig pens, and they took of pigs, with the heads and voices and bristles of pigs, but the minds within them stayed as they had been before" (Odyssey, 10:236-40).
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