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The Penelopiad is a novella by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was published in 2005 as part of the first set of books in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths. In The Penelopiad, Penelope reminisces on the events of the Odyssey, life in Hades, Odysseus, Helen of Troy, and
- Margaret Atwood
- 2005
5 de out. de 2005 · Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad is a fun, modern-day response to the heroic stories surrounding Odysseus. What's left out is the story of Penelope and her maids, the maids that Odysseus inexplicably killed upon his return to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
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Overview. In the 2005 novella The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, Canadian author Margaret Atwood retells the well-known story of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey from a different point of view: the wife of Odysseus, Penelope, and the twelve Maids he murdered upon his return home to Ithaca.
Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.
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Penelope, wife of Odysseus, tells her version of their story from the Underworld, where she meets the Maids who were hanged by Odysseus. The Maids comment on their fates and contrast them with Penelope's privileged life.
The Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood. Canongate, 2005 - Mythology, Greek - 199 pages. Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a...
20 de nov. de 2008 · The Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood. Canongate Books, Nov 20, 2008 - Fiction - 224 pages. Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and...
