He met her little smile, enjoying himself as he lowered his voice. "You think they were a happier couple?" she asked, wry. Penelope smiled at him, and the room was suddenly much much warmer. I was always more partial to Persephone and Hades." "Penelope and Odysseus were never my favored mythic couple, anyway. He lifted one of Penelope's hands in his and brushed a kiss across her knuckles. "I would never leave my Penelope for years." He said, "I would be too afraid that someone would snatch her away." His mother-in-law sighed audibly from across the room as his new sisters laughed. He stood to meet her as she approached the settee. Before him, she smiled and laughed and played games with her sisters without reminder of her unfortunate fate. Penelope smiled, but there was something in her gaze that he did not like, something akin to sadness. "I hope you have more exciting things to do when you are waiting for Michael to come home, Penny," Olivia teased. but tonight, if he went to her, would she accept him? Would she follow the path of her namesake? I currently live in Encinitas, California in North County San Diego with my husband Raphael. Our family moved to Southern CA when I was two, but I like to think a seed was planted that helped sprout my travel addiction by being born on foreign soil. Did she wait for him at night? She'd told him not to touch her. I was born in Mexico City to American parents. There was something meaningful there, and he thought she might be speaking of more than the Greek myth. "She was waiting for him to come home," Penelope said, meeting Michael's gaze. "Why on earth would someone do that?" Olivia wrinkled her nose, selecting a sweet from a nearby tray. "He left her, and she sat at her loom, sewing all day, and unraveling all her work at night. "Penelope was Odysseus's wife," Philippa explained.
In Ancient Greece, women were usually married by the age of 14, as soon as they were able to produce children. "How did Penny sewing and unsewing make for the Trojan War?" Odysseus and Penelope had a son before he left for Troy, and their son seems to have been a newborn when Odysseus left.
Married at 15 and confined to quarters ever since, what Penelope most has sacrificed is her youth.“I don't understand," Olivia said. I was the prize." Ithaca has become a hedonistic haven of nightclubs and beach parties, but for all its irreverence, Horton's compelling monodrama makes a significant point. She rouses herself to post a profile on a website for military wives: "How did my husband propose to me? He didn't. It's curious, too, that the entire second half is devoted to Odysseus's homecoming, given that the companion piece, Penelope Retold, covers the same ground with more originality and ingenuity.ĭevised and performed by Caroline Horton, Penelope is presented as a disturbed woman in a heap of soiled bedclothes, anxiously tuning in to the shipping forecast ("gods irritable to furious, becoming cyclonic"). But its most ingenious solutions are often the simplest: lotus fruits represented by a puff of flame, or Circe transforming the travellers to swine by stretching stockings over their heads. Sarah Brigham's resourceful production has a rough aesthetic of cable reels and oil drums. In Homers epic poem, The Odyssey, Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is highly significant and represents the epitome of the Greek ideal, because she embodies the. Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written is a musical set primarily on the Greek island of Ithaca, in the home of the islands king and queen, Odysseus.
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