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   Oct 5, 2005 · A short book, this is smart, funny and subversively clever as Atwood re-opens Homer's poems, especially The Odyssey, to give us a Penelope who speaks across time from a classical underworld but with a 21st century voice and hindsight to tell her own story.

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   Nov 21, 2021 · Published as part of the Canongate Myth Series, Margaret Atwood's 2005 novella, 'The Penelopiad', recounts the events of the 'Odyssey' from the perspective of Penelope. Fiona Macrae discusses how Atwood's play on the conventions of Greek epic poetry creates a more nuanced female protagonist.

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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 her relationships with her parents.

   • Author: Margaret Atwood

   • Publish Year: 2005

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   Nov 10, 2022 · In The Penelopiad, her 2005 revisualization of The Odyssey from the point of view of Penelope, Margaret Atwood uses the queen of Ithaca’s twelve maids as a Greek chorus to comment on the action — including their own brutal execution by hanging. Penelope has been known.

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   Aug 31, 2021 · The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood is a retelling of the life of Penelope, and the fate of the 12 maids from The Odyssey. In this contemporary tale, Atwood delves into the question of why were the twelve maids hanged and what led up to their fate?

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   Who wrote The Penelopiad?

   • Written by Fiona Macrae. Published as part of the Canongate Myth Series, Margaret Atwood's 2005 novella, 'The Penelopiad', recounts the events of the 'Odyssey' from the perspective of Penelope. Fiona Macrae discusses how Atwood's play on the conventions of Greek epic poetry creates a more nuanced female protagonist.

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   How is Penelope portrayed in The Penelopiad?

   • In Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, Penelope is portrayed as smart and sarcastic and does not mince her words. She has no illusions about herself and sees her husband exactly for who he is (“ “What a fool he made of me, some say. It was a specialty of his: making fools.

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   Is the Penelopiad a good book?

   • Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad is entertaining, witty and cleverly written. I particularly enjoyed the 21st-century courtroom scene, in one of the chapters where Odysseus is being tried for the murder of the twelve maids, with the judge referencing the book that is the main authority on the subject ( The Odyssey).

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   What does Penelope reminisce about in The Penelopiad?

   • In The Penelopiad, Penelope reminisces on the events of the Odyssey, life in Hades, Odysseus, Helen of Troy, and her relationships with her parents. A Greek chorus of the twelve maids, who Odysseus believed were disloyal and whom Telemachus hanged, interrupt Penelope's narrative to express their view on events.

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   How many pages are in The Penelopiad?

   • While just under 200pgs, The Penelopiad is crammed with story and insight. Atwood mentions the tales come from research into The Odyssey but also from versions found in Robert Graves ’ The Greek Myths.

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   What is the relationship between Helen & Penelope in The Penelopiad?

   • The Penelopiad' s antagonistic relationship between Penelope and Helen is similar to the relationships of women in Atwood's previous novels: Elaine and Cordelia in Cat's Eye, and Iris and Laura in The Blind Assassin, and follows Atwood's doubt of an amicable universal sisterhood.

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