Hi!! I've seen several posts disproving the claim that Odysseus cheated (which I also 100% agree with btw, thank you so much for those), but I keep hearing the cheated in other versions? May I ask if you might know which versions those are and if he actually cheated in said versions?
My my that brings me back to another ask I had answered to like oh my gosh all the way of last year's September! You can check it out here:
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Gosh it was tough to find in my archives hahahaha but yeah we do have several myths in which we apparently see Odysseus appear willing or mostly willing although there are also some that seem rather obscure. I mean Telegony itself is not rescued today so we are not sure if Odysseus truly loved the Thesprotian queen Callydice or not and his case with her was yet another case of Circe or Calypso all over again (although most scholiasts or people mentioning it seem to mention that his marriage with her was willing). Hesiod for example mentions the relationship between Calypso and Odysseus being mostly willing. Others as well seem to adopt that line of thought.
So apart from these women we see on the list we also can add from the accounts of Parthenius, again, the story between Odysseus and Polymela, the daughter of Aeolus that seems to play some sort of mini-scandal. Since Odysseus seduced her and stayed with her during his monthly stay in Aeolus and he even gave her some of the Trojan spoils as a gift but then he set off and left with his men and left Polymela heartbroken. Aeolus was furious but apparently Polymela's brother Diores who was in love with his sister persuaded his father to let him marry her instead. Sounds like some sort of random excuse as to how the children of Aeolus would be married to each other but as per Homer that had already happened. So yeah here are a few
Hope that helps ^_^ Thank you so much for the compliment! It is a pleasure to bring forward these issues! Forgive me for being late to answer!