Irony In The Odyssey

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Throughout Greek mythology, we see a lot of repetition of different events, facts and scenario’s. In Greek mythology stories or “myths” are told numerous times by different Greek figures. Each containing their own rendition of the events that took place. In the book The Odyssey, one particular death was told on numerous occasions Agamemnon. Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and commander of the Achaean forces at Troy. He was also the brother of Menelaus. Agamemnon was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus as a result of an ongoing affair while Agamemnon was away at war. He was later avenged by his son Orestes. The repetition of this story, as told throughout Odyssey offers the reader an inverted image of the fortunes

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