Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics

This book explores Homer's construction of the charcter of Penelope, and his more general theory of poetic production and reception. `A stimulating study by an author who has made valuable and forceful contributions to our understanding of early Greek literature, this book offers a rich and innovative synthesis of narratological and pyschological perspectives on the text of the Odyssey ' - L M Slatkin, University of Chicago .