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odyssey - epithets
“Lord of lies”
“Full of craft and guile”
odyssey - first line
“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered…”
odyssey - patriarchal
“It is for men to talk, especially me. I am the master.”
odyssey - clytemnestra
“She [Clytemnestra] has poured shame down on her head and on all other women, even good ones.”
odyssey - womans part
“A woman’s part is to keep the house in good order and to do her weaving.”
odyssey - kleos
“My fame has reached the skies.”
penelopiad - satirical voice
“So I was handed over to Odysseus, like a package of meat. A package of meat in a wrapping of gold, mind you.”
penelopiad - unreliable narrator
“Now that I’m dead, I know everything… I’ll spin a thread of my own.”
penelopiad - she’s in control
“I often found myself making up little stories about him, not all of them entirely flattering.”
penelopiad - article
“She wants to tell us her side of the story, herstory, because she is dissatisfied, even horrified, with her portrayal in mythology.” Diaz-Morillo, 2020
penelopiad - maids, drama form
“The truth, dear auditors, is seldom certain.”
penelopiad - story is written by powerful
“You had the spear, you had the word at your command.”
circe - chronological - it begins
“It begins, as so many stories do, with a child.”
circe - she is what they made her - who lived, punished
Someone “Who lived, who was punished, who turned her punishers to pigs.”
circe - heroism is feminist - motherhood as a soldier
“I faced it [motherhood] as soldiers faced their enemies.”
circe - ideals of women, xenia - where’s your husband
“When will your husband be home? We would toast to such fine hospitality.”
circe - freedom of sexuality - the hearts of men
“I do not care for the hearts of men, I thought. I have had enough of them.”
circe - superficial luxury is not freedom - cage
“A golden cage is still a cage.’
circe - she’s evil - from the odyssey
"Beware of Circe, she who weaves wicked spells and entraps men."
