Emily Wilson
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214 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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And in the dream, she weeps.
And the eagle turns out to be able to speak in human language and can say, actually, it's me.
I'm Odysseus.
Came back, killed all the suitors.
Yay.
It's great.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
No problem.
Did it all for you, baby.
But then what's not explained is why is she crying inside the dream?
And when Odysseus says, it's easy to understand this dream, Odysseus is going to come back soon, she says in that famous second speech, there were two gates of dreams, not all of them come true.
So there's a kind of ambivalence about Penelope's attitude in that sequence.
And I think her attitude is defined by this sense of she's stuck between two different narratives.
She doesn't know what's going to happen and she doesn't have the kind of control over what's going to happen that she might if she were a goddess or even...
A mortal man.
Because that's part of what it is to grow up as a man in this world.
I mean, the first four books are really devoted to how difficult his experience is in being this very, very isolated young person who doesn't have any brothers, doesn't have any friends.
Instead, he's surrounded by— He's an only child, right?
He's an only child and as somebody with both no brothers and no father, all he has is the suitors of his mom who are bullying him all the time.
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