[Reposting this because of all the hoohah about The Odyssey. Penelope’s voice is every bit as important as her husband’s (and I would argue far more worthy of listening to than any nasty thing their son has to say) and Claire North’s trilogy is inspired, hilarious, heartbreaking, and mesmerizing. Prepare to binge.] This is the…
This is the song the poets don’t sing.This is the story Homer never bothered to imagine. Construe the isle of Ithaca, home of Odysseus and his wife, Penelope. Odysseus has been absent lo these many years–eighteen, at last count–and Penelope is besieged in her fishy-smelling palace by uninvited suitors wanting to take her husband’s place,…
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