Women in the Odyssey are controlled and judged unfairly, but have some power and will use what little power they have intellectually. Take for example Odysseus’s wife, Penelope. As a woman of ancient Greece, she was under the control of the men in her life, however she would use her cunning and wit to her own advantage. Penelope tricks the suitors, the men hoping for her hand in marriage, by saying she will only marry after she has completed weaving a shroud, yet she unweaves the work every night for 3 years. “It’s your own dear mother, the matchless queen of cunning... Three whole years she deceived us blind, seduced us with this scheme.” (2.95- 118) Penelope, a cunning woman uses her wit to fend off marriage for a whole three years, her dedication
