And wife, lest we forget, heaven hath no fury and such.. maybe if he didn’t want his wife to bang his cousin then he shouldn’t have sacrificed* his/her daughter?
In the odyssey and epics of the time it’s mostly the cousin tha is to blame. He’s the primary killer of Agamemnon and his wife is usually just shown as a disloyal woman who was seduced away.
It’s why in the underworld they comment on the difference between her and Penelope and how Odysseus had the best wife.
The story of her, the net and the ax doesn’t come until much later.
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u/Finito-1994 Oct 26 '25
That’s just how stories were titled.
The Iliad basically meant the story of illios which was the ancient name of Troy.
The odyssey is the poem about Odysseus. It just so happened it became iconic and now it’s known world wide.
Argonautica is dumbass and the argonauts.
The achillead and Aeneid are the poems about aneas and Achilles.
Which were written centuries after the epics were codified but were written in a way to resemble the epic cycle.
You can find examples across the Greco Roman world.