I have not deliberately sought out other retellings. I read The Oresteia as well, because Orestes features a lot.
That’s my ambition, to have picked a “historical” bit that I find geopolitically fascinating, and to tell the story in that context, rather than to attempt to retell Homer.īeyond The Iliad and The Odyssey, what kind of research did this project involve? Did you find other retellings helpful? In that sense it’s just like historical fiction: you cherry-pick a time and a place, and then you have a whale of a time with it. I’ve gone out of my way to stay not very close to the mainline Homeric narrative. In The Odyssey, there’s a lot of weeping and being sent to her room, and that’s kind of it. Photo credit: Siobhan WattsIt depends what you mean by reimagining–because Penelope’s story is not really told.
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