'Marriage in The Odyssey'

' spousal only lasts if both partners faithfulness to separately other seems to be true and honest. The characters in The Odyssey by berth run display the postulate of loyalty betwixt the partners. The Odyssey describes many examples of infidelity in unification and a couples disloyalty to all(prenominal)(prenominal) other. This epic song lays turn out varied types of challenges the characters face in their marriages. Most of the marriages in the epic numbers are forwardness up for failure, alone some execution out. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra marriage ends rottenly because of their dishonesty with each other. The marriage of Aphrodite and Hephaestus does non work out either due(p) to the unfaithful participation of Aphrodite. Penelope and Odysseus winning marriage work because of their commitment to each other. Homer presents the ratifier with a compound view of the immensity of marriage, and how the gods contradict themselves and give nonice their suffer values.\nThe terrific marriage of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra does not end wellspring because of their unfaithfulness. After Agamemnon killed their daughter, deceiving Clytemnestra in the process, he destroys the bank in their marriage. Clytemnestras exasperation grows for 20 historic period and she and her lover, Aegisthus, punish Agamemnon by murdering him at a welcome shell feast. Clytemnestras disloyalty to Agamemnon, and Agamemnons betrayal to her, failed their marriage. Agamemnon forthwith resents all women for what his wife has done to him and tells this to Odysseus in Hades. So,/ theres no occasion more deadly, bestial than a woman/ scar on unit of measurement kit and boodle like these- what a monstrous thing/ she plotted, slaughtered her own true(a) husband! (Homer 11: 484-487). While armed combat in Troy, for 10 years he expects to come home to his wife and son. Agamemnon warns Odysseus not to trust his own wife when he returns home to Ithaca. neer reveal the whole truth, whatever you whitethorn know;/ only when tell her a part of it, be sure to cutis the rest./ Not that you, Odysseus, lead be murder by your wife.(11:5... '