![]() ![]() She retold the story through Penelope, wife of Odysseus, and with a focus on the 12 maids who were hanged to death in ‘ The Odyssey’. Margaret Atwood in ‘ The Penelopiad’ published in 2000 gave an alternate perspective. ![]() ![]() Homer’s narrative of Odysseus’ great journey and his valour has remained popular since the 8 th century BC. In the twenty years that Odysseus was away from Ithaca, he was at the Trojan War for the first ten years and then spend the next ten years fighting perils at sea, encountering monsters and demons. ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer is an epic narrating the heroic feat of Odysseus, King of Ithaca returning home after the Trojan War. ‘Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.’ – The Odyssey by Homer ‘The Penelopiad’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘Circe’ by Madeline Miller changed the narrative set by Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ ![]()
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