EEXT Y11 Odyssey/Penelopiad/Circe Quotes

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."