From Penelope to Winnie Mandela – Women Who Waited.
The paper examines the depiction of Penelope, the faithful wife in Homer’s Odyssey, in some modern novels from different parts of the world. A brief analysis of Ovid’s hint at a more complex woman in the Heroides is followed by discussion of the versions of Jean Giono, Inge Merkel, Penelope Lively,...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 393 - 407 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Springer Nature
Sep2008
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