The Image of Woman and Love in the Epical Masterpieces of Deda GorGud and Iliad and Odyssey Homer

Besides Firdowsi Great Epic, the book Deda GorGud and Iliad and Odyssey Homer are the most beautiful and greatest epical works of the world. There have been similarities and parallelism in these works which could be explained by mixing mythologies of different nations together and their influence on each other. These similarities made the researchers rethink about the view of the epic creators on the status of women as well as comparing this subject in their works. In Deda GorGud, women are as Mighty and praiseworthy as men and have had significant role in the events of the story. In Homer works, although he has had a high opinion of women and looked at men and women equally, praising women’s kindness, beauty, and patience, actually and specially in Illiad, women are pale and unimportant causing trouble and war. This paper reviewed the status of women and love in these epics, revealing similarities and differences between them.