Goddesses such as Hera, Thetis and Athena are strong, powerful and elegant. As well as being powerful, in the Iliad the goddess Hera represents a caring and maternal side, and Homer writes: “I have come down to appease your anger, but will you obey me? from heaven; and Hera, the white-armed goddess, has sent me, who loves you both equally in her heart and cares for you” (7). In the Odyssey we have the two goddesses, Calypso and Circe who Odysseus has had extensive relationships with and they are beautiful and embrace sexuality. Calypso had a self-centered and dominant character because she wanted Odysseus as her immortal husband (Bauschatz, 22). The female deities in the Odyssey and Iliad are elegant, strong and wise while mortal women are property and subordinate, as written in the Works of Hesiod and