...a subtle question - Will Odysseus ever know womankind, or even his wife for that matter? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/mar/12/homerswomen Strange Fruit ~ Hanging From the Trees Penelopiad; The story of Penelope - as told by herself, by Margaret Atwood Dracunculus vulgaris In The Odyssey, Penelope - daughter of King Icarius of Sparta, and the cousin of the beautiful Helen...