As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids tell their side of the story in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood, adapted from her own wry, witty and wise novel.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 08/02/2007
ISBN: 9780571239498
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.40d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 110537 / Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Reading Level: 6.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5