In the Book of The Odyssey women have different roles, depending on their characters in the story. Women are like mediators, advocates, for Odysseus as Athena speaks to Zeus: “O Majesty is in the dust indeed, and, justly…But my own heart is broken for Odysseus, the master mind of war, so long cast away upon an island in the running sea…His daughter(Atlas’s daughter) will not let Odysseus go…She keeps his mind from Ithaka…”, and then she asks to Zeus, “Are you not moved by this, Lord of Olympos?…” (1,3;64+65, 67-69, 75-78, 81). Women are also like father figures, as Telemakhos said to Athena, “Friend, you have done me kindness, like a father to his son, and I shall not forget your counsel ever.” (1,11; 355-357). Women are considered attractive beings, “this beautiful lady, as she approached the suitors…” (1,11; 382+383). Some women were considered merchandise, like products that can be sell and brought, “Her(Eurykleia)  father had been  Ops, Poisenor’s son, and she had been a purchase of Laertes when she was still a blossoming girl.” (1,14;483-485).

Free will and fate are been treated on The Odyssey, free will when Odysseus stayed with Calipso, sleeping with her in her bed, nobody forced him, and yeah sure circumstances got him there, but nobody obligated him to sleep with her. We can understand after been in the sea and away from his wife, and the desire and trill to be in bed with a goddess,  can be the cause. Fate was treated as a meant to be force, eventually, Odysseus will find a way to escape, even if it took almost 20 years to come back to Ithaka.

The Odyssey had a few biblical allusions like, when Athena being a goddess, could changed looks and transformed to certain people, having power as a god to convey herself to deliver a message. Also when Athena could walk in the air, “who else beheld this but Athena? From the air she walked, taking the form of a tall woman, handsome and clever at her craft…In plain sight of Odysseus, unseen, though, by Telemakhus, unguessed, for not to everyone will gods appear…Odysseus noticed her.” (16,294;182-189), first like God in the Garden of Eden looking for Adam and Eve, second God and celestial beings were seen by certain people, like chosen ones.