Dr. Emily Hauser

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The Ancients · Odyssey | Sea of Monsters & Slaughter of the Suitors · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

Now, it sounds, I think, for a modern audience like, well, why would they have believed that she would take four years to just kind of weave a funeral shroud?

But in fact, these could have been very kind of intricate, complex garments they could have had.

figurative scenes on them.

So in fact, if Penelope was taking a lot of time, I think that's probably not something that would have surprised them.

Of course, ultimately, they do find out.

They find out, do they?

They do find out.

Well, it's one of the enslaved women, in fact, who kind of passes the message on.

Yeah, I mean, with the enslaved women, I think it's really difficult because in the way that they are being conceived of at the time in this poetry, they are definitely being seen of as kind of the property of Odysseus.

And so for him, that's the real issue is that when the suitors have kind of committed sexual assault against these women...

they've also kind of assaulted his property.

And for him, that's a real issue.

So in Odysseus's mind, they are absolutely team suitors, because at that point, they've kind of gone over to that side.

In terms of what they were doing and what they thought, I think that's a lot harder to say.

Whether they're given any agency in that, I very much doubt.

And there is one woman who's called Melantho, who is very much painted as kind of a woman who has

So there's another ally, a goat herd, called, I believe, Philoetius, who joins the crew on the way.

And then you've got the good goat herd, the bad goat herd.

Bad goat herd is Melanthius, who we already measured up.

So we've got this sort of growing posse around Odysseus as he's going up to the palace.

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