"So,
there’s nothing more deadly, bestial than a woman
set on works like these – what a monstrous thing
she plotted, slaughtered her own lawful husband!
Why, I expected, at least, some welcome home
from all my children, all my household slaves
when I came sailing back again…But she –
the queen hell-bent on outrage – bathes in shame
not only herself but the whole breed of womankind,
even the honest ones to come, forever down the years!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 11, lines 483-492. Agamemnon’s ghost goes on a rant against women, believing that his wife Clytemnestra’s treacherous behavior stains the reputation of women everywhere. Agamemnon describes how his homecoming from the Trojan war was met, not with the expected warm welcome, but a plot by his wife to kill him.