Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, …
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Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in the Odyssey doesn't hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I've always been haunted by the hanged maids and, in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin presents a cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the twelve maids hanged for disloyalty to Odysseus in his absence.
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The Penelopiad
Paperback, 199 pages
English language
Published 2005 by Canongate.
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The Penelopiad
Hardcover, 199 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Canongate.
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The Penelopiad - the myth of Penelope And Odysseus
Hardcover, 208 pages
English language
Published 2005 by Canongate.
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Penelopiad
Paperback, 199 pages
Published 2005 by CANONGATE.
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- 978-1-84195-725-8Copied ISBN!
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- 62169893
The Penelopiad
Hardcover, 216 pages
English language
Published by Knopf Canada.
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- 978-0-676-97418-8Copied ISBN!
The Penelopiad
Hardcover, 144 pages
English language
Published by Ulverscroft Large Print.
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- 978-0-7531-7632-0Copied ISBN!
The Penelopiad
Paperback, 199 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Vintage Canada.
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- 978-0-676-97425-6Copied ISBN!
Penelopiad, The
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English language
Published by Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed.
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- 978-1-4233-0776-1Copied ISBN!
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- 62099019
The Penelopiad
199 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Canongate, Canongate Books.
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- 978-1-84195-811-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 439565413
The Penelopiad
162 pages
English language
Published 2005 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-400092-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 234087852
The Penelopiad
Paperback, 224 pages
Published by Canongate Books Ltd.
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- 978-1-84195-704-3Copied ISBN!
A odisséia de Penélope
159 pages
Portuguese language
Published 2005 by Companhia das Letras.
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- 978-85-359-0733-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 72254952
The Penelopiad
mp3 cd
English language
Published by Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed.
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