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Re: Sherri G.
Women are no less than men in many daunting circumstances.👼
posted by
anib
on November 8, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Women have been known to rule just as well as men in some circumstances, but one who desires to run an entire nation will need nerves of steel, and women are better nurturers than they are masters of policy.
posted by
Sherri_G
on November 5, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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Helen of Troy
posted by
anib
on November 4, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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Re: Kabu ma’am,
The Greek fleet’s expedition of Troy was stopped by the goddess Artemis who caused unfavorable winds and the ship was becalmed at a Greek port town, Aulis. The priest suggested sacrifice of Iphigenia, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s daughter, to appease the goddess. Thus Clytemnestra wised to avenge her daughter’s murder from Agamemnon. The Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen --the beautiful wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta--and carried her off to the city of Troy, the Greeks responded by mounting an attack on the city, thus beginning the Trojan War. They wanted an all round decimation of Troy which took 10 years. Clytemnestra, a woman slighted, is out to take revenge which I think was justified because Agamemnon had has also brought a slave girl concubine as a prize from the spoils of war — Cassandra, thus heightening Clytemnestra’s already boiling hatred and rage.
posted by
anib
on November 4, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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it is a great story and I have pondered as to why he thought after 10 years away and his daughter sacrificed, plus a beautiful woman in tow that all would just fall in place for him. Never trust a woman who has been so slighted.
posted by
Kabu
on November 4, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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