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She is mentioned by various classical authors including Plautus, [32] Propertius, [33] Horace, Ovid, Martial and Statius. The use of Penelope in Latin texts provided a basis for her ongoing use in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as a representation of a chaste wife.
Oct 10, 2017 · In this paper I explore how Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) provides a retrospective vision of an Odyssey that has already happened – and, by so doing, opens up an extended investigation of what it means to receive the texts and myths of the classical past.
Dec 14, 2017 · Atwood’s novelistic reworking of the Odyssey provides an overt engagement with the potential for identifying and working across faultlines in the Odyssean narrative through alternative female viewpoints from the start, in that it is named after her eponymous heroine, Penelope.
- Emily Hauser
- 2018
Penelope has in fact done the exact opposite, but neither the Ithacans nor the myth itself do her justice: her figure continues to be linked to a concept of fidelity, despite a lack of references to this effect within the text.
Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is a character often overlooked in the epic poem The Odyssey. However, in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Penelopiad, Penelope takes center stage as the narrator of her own story.
Penelope. (Illustration by Thomas Ehretsmann) The Odyssey’s Penelope is a thinker, a person who is effective in facing her world and its problems by thinking her way out of them. She is, perhaps, even more of a thinker than her much-devising husband, as he is still, occasionally, given to “solving” his problems with brute force.
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Oct 2, 2015 · Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad (2005. Edinburgh: Canongate) enters into this conversation with her recasting of Penelope. Atwood compares and contrasts her Penelope with Homer's Penelope, and when one reads the novella one is constantly confronted with the two opposing figures.
