Why do you think Odysseus allows Clytemnestra's daughter to be sacrificed?

Why do you think Odysseus allows Clytemnestra's daughter to be sacrificed?

He was not an honorable man. He was not strong and wanting to prove he was devoted to a horrible king.

Evidently human sacrifice was not uncommon in appeasing gods. Given his prior actions, Odysseus seemed perfectly sacrificing Agamemnon’s daughter, just as Agamemnon was willing to kill her. In general, the society portrayed had little regard for women.

Odysseus believed the sacrifice of Clytemnestra's daughter would grant favor from the gods including winning the upcoming war. Neither he nor the other man valued the life of a princess.

The Homeric text describes him as a man of many twists and turns, just as this author did. He was smart and wily, and as a man of his time and status, would not value the life of a distant female relation by marriage when that would not advance his ambitions or help him to return as soon as possible to his own family. He may not have liked it, but was willing and capable of dissembling to Clytemnestra to serve his own purpose.

To answer a question with a question - Do you think he actually believed that sacrificing her would “bring the wind” and help them get on their way to fight the war?

Although I seem to remember Odysseus had his doubts about the gods, I think he was smart enough to know that others didn't, so something had to be done. And, as others have said, the life of a girl wouldn't have seemed that important to warriors, not even that of a princess.

I think that Odysseus looked at the act as a practical matter. He couldn't stop it from happening, but he could gain trust by assisting in it. He had nothing to lose in helping Agamemnon.

I think Odysseus was wily, and even though he may not have believed the gods required this sacrifice, he knew that the whole war campaign rested on troop morale and belief in their mission. If sacrificing Iphigenia was a means to an end, he'd go along with it. I don't think Odysseus was a moral hero. He was a crafty "hero." He is responsible for winning the long war with his craft vis a vis the Trojan Horse.

I don't think he cared. He had no stake in the action so what was it to him? Nothing, and as others have stated human life, especially female life, had very little value.

Odysseus was wily, crafty, clever, cagey, crooked, scheming, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaky, underhanded, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, foxy, greasy, guileful, insidious, slick, slipper, smooth, tricky, BUT not honest and ethical. He was a man of his culture and one who was all for himself and keeping himself alive and on the frontage of the "news."

I also think that Odysseus allowed Iphigenia to be sacrificed because it would raise the morale of the troops and it would grant him favor in the eyes of Agamemnon. Women had no lasting value for these men.

Odysseus likely viewed the daughter’s sacrifice as an unemotional business deal / a naturally casualty of war time decisions. It was likely of little importance to him as compare to the unification and galvanization of the men going to war who believed the sacrifice important.

Odysseus was a plaything of the gods. Therefore, when the seer Calchas, states that the gods demanded a sacrifice, Odysseus knew that he couldn't disobey.