Final Research Paper

The focus of my final research paper will be on the different roles of women in The Odyssey, The Iliad, and in Sappho's poetry. In each of these poems there were women that played contradicting roles as to what the 'ideal' Greek woman was considered to be like in that period. Although, they were some of the cliche characteristics such as, the mother figures that were to mainly show grief and heartache over their husbands and sons gone at sea; which shows them a weak and inferior to the warrior men. Then there was Sappho, the poet and teacher of the island Lesbos, whose writing was shunned because of the homosexual undertones. I have not yet constructed a working thesis, but these poems/poets will be my main focuses in forming my analytic question.