"God help me!" the man of intrigue broke out:
"Clearly I might have died the same ignoble death
as Agamemnon, bled white in my own house too,
if you had never revealed this to me now,
goddess, point by point."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 13, lines 437-441. Odysseus is grateful to Athena for warning him about the suitors plaguing Penelope his wife. Odysseus doesn’t wish to follow in the footsteps of Agamemnon, who arrived home from the Trojan War to an unfaithful wife and her lover who killed Agamemnon.