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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Canongate U.S.

In The Penelopiad, she focuses on the terrible fate of Penelope's twelve maids, strung up by the neck by Odysseus and his son Telemachus once they have butchered Penelope's 120 suitors who endlessly harassed her in the 20 years of Odysseus' absence. Doesn't quite sound like the good ol' Homeric epic we all read and loved, does it? The Penelopiad is Atwood playing around with the character of Penelope, Odysseus' long-suffering wife. Book – Penelopiad – The Myth Of Penelope and Odysseus. I am rather rapidly making my way through Canongate's Myths series and just concluded another: Marget Atwood's The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. The Penelopiad has been on my tbr list for quite some time and I wanted to read it for our Read a Myth challenge. A female Odysseus, a pleasant Penelope, and feminist maids. I liked the subversive After Atwood's The Penelopiad, I'm reading Jeanette Winterson's Weight and Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth, another title in the Canongate Myth series. The Penelopiad tells the legendary story of Homer's Odyssey from the point of view of its hero Odysseus's intelligent and long-suffering wife, Penelope. The story of Penelope – as told by herself.