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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.
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- Title
- The Penelopiad
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Margaret Atwood
- Publisher
- Canongate
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Category
- World prose, Women of fall
- Description
- 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.