... of misogyny can be found in Greek literature. In the Odyssey, Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, while touted as the faithful wife, there is also simultaneously suppositions that her faithfulness could not be trusted. When Odysseus returns after a twenty-year absence, he does not reveal himself to Penelope until he has killed the suitors vying for his wife's hand. Odysseus states: "do not ever be too kind to ... your wife or tell her the whole of your plan, however well you know it but tell her part ... dramatic actresses in Greece today. Medea was a princess of Colchis, the area where Ja...

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