The role that women play in The Odyssey is one of power over men, that comments about Greek society during this time, saying that their society was a matriarchal society, when it was supposed to be a patriarchal society. In Greece during this time of about 700 B.C., they believed they lived in a patriarchal society, when in reality it was matriarchal. The Greeks society was so absurd because it was ridiculous that they did …showed first 75 words of 913 total…

…showed last 75 words of 913 total…supposed to have been. In truth it was matriarchal because the women were the leaders with all of the power. The men when compared with the women of the epic The Odyssey have no real power. In the epic The Odyssey the role that women have is that they have power over the men, and what this says about Greek society is that women were in charge, when really the men were supposed to be.