Women in today’s age are far different than what they are depicted like in the Odyssey. A major characteristic they shared was that they both were clever in their own respective lives. Penelope was smart to secretly unravel her cloth to buy her husband more time to return home. Odysseus’s cleverness was shown multiple times throughout the epic, for example telling the giant that his name was “Nohbody”, even though that cleverness vanished shortly after the event. Contrary to these similarities their lies a difference in how both were viewed as. Odysseus a intelligent Trojan War hero even though his many, many faults, was still seen as a perfect leader and man. However Penelope as soon as Odysseus was not found after the war had ended had the
