From The English Patient to Odysseus and Penelope: A Tale of Love and Revenge
The palace of Ithaca is in the midst of a bloody massacre. Odysseus, the king, has returned, bow drawn and arrows ready, slaying every suitor in the palace. "Is this the man you’ve been waiting for?" asks Antinous, the ringleader of the queen’s suitors, indignantly addressing Penelope, Odysseus’s wife. But neither Odysseus nor his son, Telemachus, shows any mercy; their sharp swords pierce through Antinous’s heart. Still of “The Return” This is a tale familiar to readers of the Homeric epics or
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