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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.
Books. 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...
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Oct 23, 2014 · The Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood. Faber & Faber, Oct 23, 2014 - Performing Arts - 112 pages. As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War.
Margaret Atwood - Penelopiad - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. novel based on penelope from homer's odyssey.
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 unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.
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