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If you thought this was interesting, you might also like Margret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17645.The_Penelopiad https://www
by skadamou 9y ago
If you thought this was interesting, you might also like Margret Atwood's "The Penelopiad"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17645.The_Penelopiad https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17645.The_Penelopiad
- CalChris 9y ago> her twelve hanged maids Yes, Penelope's maids come to a bad end. I think a lot of critics misread this as misogyny on Homer's part. However, it is meant to be balanced with the death of the suitors and also Odysseus' shipmates, leaving only the marriage at the end.
- skadamou 9y agoHmm, that's an interesting take I had not considered before. I can totally see where our modern sense of sexuality/morality could get in the way of some of Homer's subtler themes.