Homer ~ The Odyssey/Penelope's progress While the Iliad's concern is with arms and men, the Odyssey is all about women, sex, and female freedom A still from the opening scene of Godard's Le Mépris, a contemplation on the mistrust at the centre of Homer's Odyssey. Photograph: Kobal It was with a queasy sensation that I recently reread the final pages of Homer's Odyssey. I'm not talking about the massacre of the suitors, those hundred or so upper class louts who, while Odysseus seeks a... read more
