Mythology & Folklore
Book IX, 166
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Homer shows us that every woman is wicked and treacherous; be she chaste or a whore, in either case she is perdition. Helen’s adultery caused the murder of men, and Penelope’s chastity caused death. All the woes of the Iliad were for the sake of one woman, and Penelope was the cause of the Odyssey.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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