Women's Roles in the Odyssey

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They are those of the half-sisters Helen, wife of Menelaus and Queen of Sparta, and Klytaimnestra. The entire Trojan War was mostly caused by the unfaithfulness of Helen to Menelaus; her affair caused many deaths and Odysseus would have never had to leave his home, wife, and son to go fight in the Trojan War if she had not run away with Paris...
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When Helen decided to runaway with Paris to Troy she had set the reasoning to send out thousands of ships to war. At this time Helen was the most beautiful women in the world and who wasn't to question if she was the most beautiful women of all time? When Helen left for Troy with Paris she was there for nine years and then another ten years throughout the Trojan War...
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