#ooh actually that makes me a little insane. imagining iphigenia's homecoming happening concurrently with odysseus'

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i keep thinking about how euripides makes it clear iphigenia still loathes odysseus for his trickery and part in her sacrifice, and then later she saves herself and her brother through trickery -- she prevails only at her most odysseus-esque.

also something about how both taurians and helen present elaborate trickery for self-preservation as a thing the women do when the men's violence (or threats of violence) keep failing. feminine-coded odysseus. i'm sure somebody must have written academically about this somewhere.