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“If the word got around about his post, said Odysseus in a mock-sinister manner, he would know I’ve been sleeping with some other man, and then – he said, frowning at me in what was supposed to be a playful way - he would be very cross indeed, and he would have to chop me into little pieces with his sword or hang me from the roof beam” (73).
Consider Penelope’s reputation from The Odyssey: a loyal, faithful, and ever-loving wife. How does this passage provide more context to that narrative?
Odysseus clearly says that, had Penelope not been as loyal and faithful as she was, he would have killed her. She goes on to say that she was truly frightened by this comment,...
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