![]() ![]() I’m not saying she was planning to betray Odysseus/ Telemachus - I don’t think the text rules it out 100%. Or else she had other dark designs on the suitors. It’s not inconceivable that Penelope had been scheming something on her own, she might even be planning to remarry as society expects her to. She offers hope to all, sends notes to each,īut all the while her mind moves somewhere else.įor your return, and grieves. It is the third year, soon it will be four, OTOH, the Antinous (2.91) and Athena (13.380) both said that Penelope sent notes to encourage each of the suitors Manipulating Telemachus to see Penelope as Clytemnestra 2.0 seems to be her agenda right from the start. On with the show, with the gods' attention signified by Zeus appearing as an eagle killing a goose on one stage and Apollo as hawk and pigeon prey on another.Īthena also suggested Orestes’ famous revenge as “role model” for Telemachus in Book 1 (1.298), to Telemachus’ bewilderment. They threw her overboard to feed the fish She crashed into the ship's hold like a seagull. The disrespectful disposure of her body is like a slap: But the injustice breeding injustice aspect is potent to me, as it seems she was raped by the Phoenician's and blamed for it ""Sex sways all women’s minds,/ even the best of them"), before being sold to Typhian slavers.Īrtemis killing her I gather is the gods' punishment. The theme of women being considered dangerous and needing testing a lot is fulfilled with her. The story in the story blames the event on both the gullibility of the female slave in his father's house who believes Phoenician sailors' promise to bring her home and her later collusion with them to do the same to Eumaeus. I was moved by Eumaeus's story of how he was enslaved. Sometimes we experience him breaking through to tears when he hears of tragedy, but here no shred of reaction sneaks through. ![]() By warning Telemachus to sail around their treacherous ships to get home, it reminds me of doctoring a horse for a race.Īs a reader, I am left to imagine what Odysseus thinks when he learns from his swineherd friend about his mother dying in grief and worry over his long absence. She effectively sent Telemachus on a journey to get advice and knowledge needed for manning up to the suitors, and is rewarded by the suitors kicking off an ambush for his return home. ![]()
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