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Penelope emerges favourably from comparison with Clytemnestra and Helen, the main paradigms of infidelity in the present, and with the Nekyia’s catalogue of past heroines. The vulnerability of these ladies to seduction, corruption, and deception argues for taking Odysseus home, but the Phaeacians detain him abroad like Melampus in his catalogue. Penelope’s weaving was an antidote to the Dionysiac forces which threaten to put a suitor in Odysseus’ place, but when it is completed, she fears that she may kill her son in a maenadic frenzy, like Aedon who was turned into a nightingale. Her state of mind is demonstrated by her grief for the pet geese destroyed by an eagle in a dream told to her disguised husband. Her journey down to the storeroom and return with the covered basket containing the axes for the bow contest mimics the Arrephoria, and marks her transition from seclusion to marriage.
Title: Penelope
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Penelope emerges favourably from comparison with Clytemnestra and Helen, the main paradigms of infidelity in the present, and with the Nekyia’s catalogue of past heroines.
The vulnerability of these ladies to seduction, corruption, and deception argues for taking Odysseus home, but the Phaeacians detain him abroad like Melampus in his catalogue.
Penelope’s weaving was an antidote to the Dionysiac forces which threaten to put a suitor in Odysseus’ place, but when it is completed, she fears that she may kill her son in a maenadic frenzy, like Aedon who was turned into a nightingale.
Her state of mind is demonstrated by her grief for the pet geese destroyed by an eagle in a dream told to her disguised husband.
Her journey down to the storeroom and return with the covered basket containing the axes for the bow contest mimics the Arrephoria, and marks her transition from seclusion to marriage.
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