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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Canongate U.S.

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood. 679 results found for "The Penelopiad The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Myths pdf". Here, Atwood turns the focus from Odysseus onto Penelope, who from the underworld of Hades tells us about her own life, interspersed with choruses by the 12 maids who were hung to death upon Odysseus's return. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (in audio) ~ by Margaret Atwood; Laural Merlington (Reader); Canongate Myths series # 2. As part of Canongate's 'Myths' series, Atwood was commissioned to re-tell a myth, and originally, she wrote, tried to re-write a Viking legend, before realising that she was “haunted” by the fate of the handmaids in the Odyssey, hanged arbitrarily by Telemachus, for having sex She decided that she would write a version of the tale which would address this problem, and tell Penelope's story as she waited and waited for Odysseus to come home from the Trojan War. Review: I've taken to loading an audiobook on my ipod I was seriously considering reading this book last year as part of my Read-A-Myth challenge but in the end had too many other books to read. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, by Margaret Atwood, Read by Laural Merlington, Brilliance Audio, 2005. The Penelopiad The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (The Myths Series) (9781455839261) Margaret Atwood, Laural Merlington. You can find out more about the Canongate Myths series here and here. In The Penelopiad, she focuses on the terrible fate of Penelope's twelve maids, strung up by the neck by Odysseus and his son Telemachus once they have butchered Penelope's 120 suitors who endlessly harassed her in the 20 years of Odysseus' absence. Penelope reminds us that Odysseus competed for Helen's (her cousin) hand but lost to Menelaus. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood is a modern-day, rather irreverent, retelling of the myth of Penelope, Odysseus's very faithful wife, and her maids. Is this century becoming boring to writers? The Penelopiad is Atwood's retelling of the myth of Odysseus (of The Odyssey) from the perspective of Penelope, Odysseus' wife, who waited at home for him for almost 20 years. These maids have haunted Atwood, and in The Penelopiad, Penelope gives us their story, uncoiling the truth behind their brief and dismissive appearance in The Odyssey. After the games Depending on which myth you read, Helen was either stolen or gifted to Paris by Aphrodite, but Atwood goes with Occam's razor: that Helen ran off with prettyboy Paris. From one of Canada's most acclaimed writers comes this fresh and witty retelling of The Odyssey myth. I liked the subversive After Atwood's The Penelopiad, I'm reading Jeanette Winterson's Weight and Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth, another title in the Canongate Myth series. Besides Augustus and The Golden Mean, I've come across these: Ransom (about Achilles) – David Malouf The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus – Margaret Atwood.