After all, their love is one that withstands the tests of time, literally. ... She requests to speak to the beggar who supposedly knows information about her sweet husband. ... They believe in analyzing situations and going about it shrewdly. ... In ancient Greek literature, women are depicted as cunning deceitful people, and this implication is supported by characters such as Clytemnestra, who embodies all that is fraudulent and deceptive in the world. ... This monster does not appear in the character of Penelope, but rather a clever woman appears instead. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In his two most famous books, The Iliad and The Odyssey, those principles are seen in situations and characters. The Greeks in consider Homer's two epics as the highest cultural achievement of their people, the defining moment in Greek culture, which set the basic Greek character in stone. ... The Odyssey is the story of the homecoming of another Greek hero Odysseus. ... It talks about all the difficulties he faced over the course of ten years. ... He composed the Odyssey and the Iliad in long lines of six beats each called Dactylic Hexameter, which the ancients thought suited the ...

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The episode that I decided to pick from The Odyssey as my example of tragedy is the story of Agamemnon's death at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus and his son Orestes avenging his death by killing his mother and Aegisthus. ... It also involves many high ranking characters as well as taking place in an open and public setting. Although this is a short story that is only told verbally to Telemachus, it resonates powerfully to the overall theme of the poem, The Odyssey, about fate, betrayal and loyalty. ... She begins to ponder about why and how she has gotten to this point...

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• Grade Level: High School