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RE-AIR: Calliope is Over Your Sh*t, the Women of the Trojan War with Natalie Haynes

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Am Penelope, of Her I Would Love to Talk About Your Take on Penelope

i love penelope in general, i absolutely love her. She's wonderful. And she's always been treated as this sort of,. there are different traps for women, i think, in terms of the way that they are talked about and written about. For the most part, it's, you know, that this woman, medea, clytemnestra, is bad. So we have this notion of them as bad woman, and then we know where we are, and we can all kind of carry on. And with penelope, it's hopposite. She's the best wife. She's so good, good, long suffering, never complaining, penelope

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