Canongate Myth Series
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Description
"Homer’s Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey , especially for the details of Penelope’s parentage, her... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Penelope: The protagonist and storyteller, the wife Odysseus left behind on his journey.
First Sentence
Now that I'm dead I know everything.
Table of Contents
Introduction
i A Low Art
ii The Chorus Line: A Jump-Roping Rhyme
iii My Childhood
iv The Chorus Line: Kiddie Mourn, A Lament by the Maids
v Asphodel
vi My Marriage
vii The Scar
viii The Chorus Line: If I Was a Princess, A Popular Tune
ix The Trusted Cackle-Hen
x The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll
xi Helen Ruins My Life
xii Waiting
xiii The Chorus Line: The Wily Sea Captain, A Shanty
xiv The Suitors Stuff Their Faces
xv The Shroud
xvi Bad Dreams
xvii The Chorus Line: Dreamboats, A Ballad
xviii News of Helen
xix Yelp of Joy
xx Slanderous Gossip
xxi The Chorus Line: The Perils of Penelope, A Drama
xxii Helen Takes a Bath
xxiii Odysseus and Telemachus Snuff The Maids
xxiv The Chorus Line: An Anthropology Lecture
xxv Heart of Flint
xxvi The Chorus Line: The Trial of Odysseus, as Videotaped by the Maids
xxvii Home Life in Hades
xxviii The Chorus Line: We're Walking Behind You, A Love Song
xxix Envoi
Notes
Acknowledgements
Series
This book is in the Canongate Myth Series series.
Authors & Contributors
- Margaret Atwood (Author)
Awards
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Finalist, 2006: Adult Literature)
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (Finalist, #2007)
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