Penelopy and Clytemnestra

Penelope is the wife of Odysseus, the mariner who took 10 years to return from Troy. She is ever faithful to her long lost husband and has the remarkable willpower and intelligence to hold off the ocean of suitors that grows like the tide each day to consume her in a forced marriage. Her and her son Telemakhos, whom she raises with love and caring, wait for the man that they love.

Clytemnestra on the other hand is far less kind and noble of a person. She too is a mother but only to a vengeful son and a dead daughter. Clytemnestra’s husband Agamemnon

The Odyssey is a work with a lot of strong women in them and they are all very important to the development of Odysseus and his voyage home. The play Agamemnon is more about Clytemnestra that about it’s namesake , for the fact that he is not even introduced until the third episode of the play. Without these strong women, the pay would have no reference and all of the other characters would be shallow and dull. We see the strength of these women and through them, we see what kind of man can be involved with them, in a way they are there to both contrast and support there husbands in all of there trials.

is the king of Greece and the victor of the Trojan war, but unlike Odysseus, he returns fairly quickly. On the home front Clytemnestra is not besieged by suitors, but eaten away from within by the ever present concept of revenge due to the fact that she lost her only daughter to a pride and calloused father. Another stark difference from her counterpart Penelope, is the fact that she has remained unfaithful to her husband, taking a lover who is also bent on revenge against the king Agamemnon. But, C

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