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Publisher: Faber & Faber; Main edition (October 23, 2014)
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Penelopeâ€â€¦ is how Homer invariably described the wife of Odysseus. I recently read and reviewed Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction. Among the numerous takeaways, the author, Helen Morales, stressed that the myths are variable over time, often to fit the particular needs of the teller in a later era. Different aspects of the myth are stressed or changed.Margaret Atwood is a prolific Canadian writer whom I have regrettably never read before. I do recall seeing her work, The Blind Assassin: A Novel on the convenient dining room table of one of the Canadians that I knew in Riyadh, who read serious books, way back in the year 2000, when Atwood was awarded the Man Booker Prize for that work.Sure, the focus has always been on the soldier, Odysseus, who went away to a foreign war, took a long time to get back home due to numerous pleasant and unpleasant distractions, and received the classic “bad homecoming†when he arrived. With a bit of gender-empathy, it was only natural for Atwood to reflect upon that “ever-faithful†wife, as well, as the author says, the fate of the 12 maids that Odysseus hanged – the “collateral damage.â€In the introduction, Atwood calls her work an “echo†to the sixth power… an “echo of an echo of…†etc. First, you had the original event… the siege of Troy, somewhere in the 12th or 13th century BCE. Then you have Homer’s telling of the story, some four centuries later… Atwood says: “Penelope is perhaps the first desperate housewife to appear in art.†Atwood’s “Penelopiad†is a play, an additional four “echoes†later, that was first performed at The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2007.Penelope is in Hades, with the Maids that have been hanged. Ah, the truth can now come out. Indicative of Atwood’s more modern, “hip†style, she has Penelope declare early on: “For hadn’t I been faithful? Didn’t I wait, and wait, despite the temptations – almost the compulsion – to do otherwise? And yet what have I amounted to, now the official version has gained ground? An edifying legend. A stick used to beat other women with. Why can’t they be as considerate, as trustworthy, as all-suffering as I was? That’s the line they take, the singers, the yarn-spinners. Don’t follow my example, I want to scream in your ears…†It’s brilliant. “A stick used to beat…â€There were aspects of my reading of Odyssey that I had forgotten, perhaps because at the time they seemed like minor points. Penelope was the daughter of King Icarius, of Sparta, who feared that she might kill him when she grew up, due to a prophesy, so he ordered her drowned, which did not, obviously work out. Penelope was a cousin of Helen, yes, the face that launched those proverbial 1000 ships, and Atwood plays on that relationship. “They were all staring at Helen, who was intolerably beautiful, as usual. Like every other man on earth, Odysseus had desperately wanted to win her hand. I was at best only second prize.†Atwood empathetically describes the lives of the Maids, who are only “deep background†for Homer.Indeed, what is the appropriate conduct for an “ever-faithful†wife when she knows her husband has been servicing the goddess Calypso for several years? Atwood hints at the answer towards the end. “The two of us were now proficient and shameless liars of long standing. It’s a wonder either one of us believed a word the other said. But we did. Or so we told each other.â€A 5-star spin of a classic myth.
As part of the Canongate Myth Series, Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus" draws upon the Rieu translation of "The Odyssey" and Robert Graves' "The Greek Myths" to retell the narrative of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" from the perspective of Odysseus's wife, Penelope. Atwood begins with Penelope's childhood in Sparta and her father Icarius' attempt to kill her along with her conflict with cousin Helen, who later started the Trojan War. From there, Atwood follows Penelope to Ithaca and tells how she recruited maids as her informants during the period of Odysseus' odyssey. These maids helped spur Atwood's version of events, as Odysseus executed them upon his return and Atwood sought to give them a story and, by extension, some measure of justice.Atwood sets the story in Hades, where Penelope tells it to the reader and explains some of the mechanics of the Greek underworld. The maids act as a traditional Greek chorus, interjecting between chapters to give their input into events using modern forms of media, such as a college lecture, a show tune, and a transcript from a courtroom video. By granting Penelope the ability to witness our modern world, Atwood frees herself from the limitation of trying to fully recreate Greek settings, but also gives herself the freedom to interject humor and a cosmological worldview in which the Greek gods' power has waned and a new afterlife was set up near Hades, but it's full of suffering and torment. Fans of Atwood's work will find plenty to enjoy and her use of Greek mythology will entertain those interested in the classics.
An excellent companion and retelling of "The Odyssey" from Penelope's perspective. The writing is quick, witty, and thought-provoking; I gobbled it up in a few hours. I plan on using this text with my high school students during our study on myth. Atwood does a sublime job at bringing the strong, female voice to a genre dominated by men. In many ways it does what C.S. Lewis does with "Till We Have Faces", but in a much more contemporary voice. Any student of mythology will enjoy this or will learn to consider the world of myth from a different perspective.
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