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

We have a rich discussion about what it must have been like for Penelope to have Odysseus telling her to remarry, the suitors heavying her, and her own wishes at odds with both of them for different reasons . 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. The power of Atwood's The Penelopiad is that her Penelope, captured in myth as the archetypical woman of virtue, chastely waiting for a long absent husband, is constructed as a wholly contemporary voice. By Nadine Millar • April 3, 2013. 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. 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. Penelope tells her story of marrying Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, and the long twenty-year wait for him to return home. I haven't read it yet, it appears to be interesting and amusing. Now with two thousand years of knowledge, Her voice is potent not only because it reframes The Odyssey, arguably the most popular myth of all time but because it calls into question the “heroic actions” of Odysseus. The Penelopiad (Canongate Myths) The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood where the suitors start bossing her around, and ask the kids what they think *I* would do if my husband tried to tell me what to do…. How we see the maids, and how we see Penelope– hell, how we see women in myth– says as much about the story as it does about us. Penelope reminds us that Odysseus competed for Helen's (her cousin) hand but lost to Menelaus. Which is the whole point of mythology. There is a book by Margaret Atwood that gives, I believe, another view of these events: “The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus”. As its title suggests, The Penelopiad tells the story from the perspective of Penelope, a plain but clever girl, who–like Odysseus–must learn to live by her wits. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.