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Penelopiad

By Margaret Atwood
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By Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's acclaimed stage adaptation of Homer.

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 amorou...

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