![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Book 1 of The Odyssey, the (teenaged) Telemachus tells his mother (Penelope, wife of absent Odysseus): “go to your quarters now and attend to your own work, the loom and the spindle, and tell the servants to get on with theirs. Each woman is a triggering mechanism of the warriors’ hero-making adventures. In Homer’s epic, the heroes’ deeds exist in the context of the women and girls they kidnap, enslave, rape and murder marry and abandon the goddesses who protect or persecute them the nymphs they marry (and destroy or abandon) the sorceresses who further their stories the muse who sings of their feats. The Greeks’ ten years of siege and war against Troy, then ten more years of Odysseus’s return to his homeland, celebrate what it means to be a hero. The twenty-year voyage of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, is an archetypal tale of bravery, cleverness and cunning, the saga of a wily hero among a cast of heroes, Greek and Trojan. ![]()
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