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Roles of Women Figures in the Major Works

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Diana Buitron and Oliver Beth Cohen focus their analysis of women roles in he Homeric epic on the converging views all the authors who recited the poem the Odyssey after its creation. The portrayal of its female characters on stage differed from century to century according to the involvement of women in theatrical representations in ancient Greece and their respective roles in real life. The two authors analyze the role of human versus non-human females in the story considering the religious beliefs and the day-to-day life aspects related to gender roles. Taking the Sirens as an example that encompasses a wide array of aspects, Buitron and Cohen finds numerous aspects in the roles women plaid in ancient Greece in real life, but also in the religious representation of female characters: Women played an important role at Greek funerals; not only serving as professional mourners but also preparing the body of the deceased at home and accompanying it to the grave counted among the crucial duties of the wife and other female members of the household. Apparently, in Late Archaic to Early Classical Greek art, the newly refashioned Odyssey Sirens were not merely lethally seductive but also were harnessed in