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| ulysses, virgil, dante, descending into the underworld : beatrice, the exalted and angelic innocent : salome, the femme fatale : salome was originally victimized by herodias and biblically she was more complex than a noir femme fatale, but then she devolved when the story was simplified to portray her as just inexplicably sexual and evil : in the case of ulysses, his wife penelope was the innocent and victimized who remained home, while calypso was the femme fatale |
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