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What is mythology
the cave by clinging to the bellies of the sheep. Eventually, he arrives at his lovely houses. For some reasons, he disguises himself as an old beggar and the allies with his son to defeat the rogues in their house. However, I think that Odysseus is not a perfect man, he is tempted by Circe and lives with her in two years. And after that, but for Teiresias・ foretelling, he may give up his mind to go home. As a whole, Odysseus may sometimes become a ：Nobody,；a suppliant or even an old beggar for existence. In brief, Odysseus embodies a heroism of intelligence.
That・s the most important point for me to prefer him.
Clytemnestra is daughter of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, by Leda. Clytemnestra becomes the wife of Agamemnon and the mother of Orestes, Electra, Iphigenia. When Agamemnon go to the Trojan War, Clytemnestra become the paramour of Aegisthus. Since her daughter Ihpigenia is sacrificed for the beginning of the
Trojan War and under the condition for Agamemnon・s cheating and selfish, Clytemnestra hates Agamemnon and decides to kill him for revenge. Therefore, she schemes the bloody plan and waits for her husband・s coming home day by day. With her lover Aegisthus, Clytemnestra kills her husband, Agamemnon, and his booty Cassandra. Later she is killed by her son, Orestes. The tragedy of the House of Atreus ends up in the long run.
To sum up, Clytemnestra is a powerful woman of intelligence and violence and self-assertion who plots like a man. I admire Clytemnestra not only for her bravery to against the disgusting masculinity, bur for her intelligence to intrigue plans, and her patience to wait the revengeful chance as well.