Add to ORKGThis paper deals with the character of Penelope, in Homer’s Odyssey, of her power and worth.Also how female power and worth were measured in Homeric society, which was a world ruled by men. Penelope is unique because she survived in a male dominated world without any magical power, but by her own strength. She protects her family and home from her enemies. This dissertation will explore Penelope’s realm of power, how much authority she had and what means she used, and also how her actions and character measures her worth as awoman. She will be both compared to other female characters and to the standards of a patriarchal society.Classical sources and modern sources will be analyzed and compared, to understand hidden meanings, popular discus...
‘The Penelopiad’ is a retelling of the Greek myth of Odysseus and his faithful wife, Penelope. Accor...
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of th...
A feminist perspective of the myth of Penelope in Annie Leclerc’s Toi, Pénélope, Margaret Atwood’s T...
This paper deals with the character of Penelope, in Homer’s Odyssey, of her power and worth.Also how...
This thesis analyses the fortunes of Homer's heroine Penelope as an exemplum of wifely and female vi...
<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>We try to anal...
One consequence of the recent infusion of newer critical approaches into the study of classical lite...
Since the mid-1970s, classical scholars have taken a new interest in the study of women in antiquity...
This paper shows how Penelope and the Iliadic Helen are constructed as similar, yet ethically antity...
Homer’s Odyssey presents ideal individuals: Odysseus as the archetypal leader of men and of family, ...
In Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, the author places Clytemnestra in stark opposition to Penelope, the wi...
Typescript.Within the pale of that civilization which has grown up under the combined influence of t...
The Catalogue of Heroines (Odyssey 11.225-330) presents a corpus of prominent mythological women as ...
The aim of this study is to point out that Homer’s epics create a feminine typology that is approach...
The women portrayed in Greek drama were often strong, courageous, and integral to the storyline. In ...
‘The Penelopiad’ is a retelling of the Greek myth of Odysseus and his faithful wife, Penelope. Accor...
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of th...
A feminist perspective of the myth of Penelope in Annie Leclerc’s Toi, Pénélope, Margaret Atwood’s T...
This paper deals with the character of Penelope, in Homer’s Odyssey, of her power and worth.Also how...
This thesis analyses the fortunes of Homer's heroine Penelope as an exemplum of wifely and female vi...
<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>We try to anal...
One consequence of the recent infusion of newer critical approaches into the study of classical lite...
Since the mid-1970s, classical scholars have taken a new interest in the study of women in antiquity...
This paper shows how Penelope and the Iliadic Helen are constructed as similar, yet ethically antity...
Homer’s Odyssey presents ideal individuals: Odysseus as the archetypal leader of men and of family, ...
In Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, the author places Clytemnestra in stark opposition to Penelope, the wi...
Typescript.Within the pale of that civilization which has grown up under the combined influence of t...
The Catalogue of Heroines (Odyssey 11.225-330) presents a corpus of prominent mythological women as ...
The aim of this study is to point out that Homer’s epics create a feminine typology that is approach...
The women portrayed in Greek drama were often strong, courageous, and integral to the storyline. In ...
‘The Penelopiad’ is a retelling of the Greek myth of Odysseus and his faithful wife, Penelope. Accor...
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of th...
A feminist perspective of the myth of Penelope in Annie Leclerc’s Toi, Pénélope, Margaret Atwood’s T...