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“Men who find solace only in other men are to be distrusted,” Castor told Clytemnestra and Helen one morning as they were watching Theseus and Pirithous fight in the gymnasium. “They don’t respect anyone else, let alone a woman.”
“Sooner or later, you will die. And I will not mourn you. I will look at the flames consuming your body, and I will rejoice.”
He desired her strength because it was a challenge to him. He wished to bend her to his own will, break her. He wanted to show he was stronger by subjugating her.
Such is the fate of a woman, no matter how shining and brilliant she is, to be crushed like grain under a pestle.
