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Women play different roles in early literature. In The Illiad, Gilgamesh, and Oedipus Rex, their roles determine the different amounts of power they possess and how they use the powers to influence the events that occur. In The Illiad, the women throughout the st ....

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.... a wanton from the temple of love; return with her, and let her woman’s power this man (3.14). This shows how the women were used as a powerful distraction to seduce a man and take his mind off of what he should be doing. Finally, In Oedipus Rex, the role of women shows the power of royalty and persuasion. Jocasta, Oedipus’ wife and mother, speaks: And as for this marriage with your mother have no fear. Many a man before, you in your dreams, has shared his mother’s bed. Take such things for shadows, nothing at all- Live, Oedipus, as if there is no tomorrow! (1073-1079). Here shows the power of persuasion that Jocasta has ....