Penelope

  • A. Amory, The Renunion of Odysseus and Penelope edited by C. Taylor (1965)
  • E. A. S. Butterworth, “Penelope’s Weaving and the Wedding of Nausicaa,” in Some Traces of the Pre-Olympian World in Greek Literature and Myth (1966) 98ff.
  • C. S. Byre, “Penelope and the Suitors Before Odysseus: Odyssey 18.158-303,” American Journal of Philology 109 (1988) 159-173 / full text
  • R. D. Cromey, “History and Image: the Penelope Painter’s Akropolis (Louvre G3271 and 480/79 BC),” Journal of Hellenic Studies 111 (1991) 165-175 / full text
  • Diana Buitron-Oliver, Beth Cohen, “Between Skylla and Penelope: Female Characters of the Odyssey in Archaic and Classical Greek Art,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • C. Emlyn-Jones, “The Reunion of Penelope and Odysseus,” GandR 31 (1984) 1-18
  • N. Felson-Rubin, “Penelope’s Perspective: Character From Plot,” in Homer: Beyond Oral Poetry edited by E. J. Bremer, Amsterdam (1987) 61-83
  • N. Felson-Rubin, Regarding Penelope, Princeton (1994) / bmcr
  • Foley, Helene, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, Princeton: Princeton University Press (2001) [Chapters: I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation, II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage, III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy, III.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers; Penelope as Paradigm, III.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles’ Electra, III.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent, III4. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras, III.5. Tragic Wives: Medea’s Divided Self, III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides, IV Anodos Dramas: Euripides’ Alcestis and Helen ] / web link
  • Helene P. Foley, “Penelope as Moral Agent,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • Fredricksmeyer, Hardy C., “Penelope Polutropos: The Crux at Odyssey 23.218-24,” American Journal of Philology 118.4 (1997) / pdf
  • E. Gregory, “Unravelling Penelope: The Construction of the Faithful Wife in Homer’s Heroines,” Helios 23.1 (1996) 3-20
  • W. E. Helleman, “Penelope as Lady Philosophy,” Phoenix 49.4 (1995) 283-302
  • W. E. Helleman, “Homer’s Penelope: A Tale of Feminine Arete,” EMC 14.2 (1995) 227-250
  • W. E. Helleman, “Penelope as Lady Philosophy,” Phoenix 49.4 (1995) 283-302
  • Stephanie W. Jamison, “Penelope and the Pigs: Indic Perspectives on the Odyssey,” Classical Antiquity 30 (1999) / web link
  • S. I. Johnston, “Penelope and the Erinyes: Odyssey 20.61-82,” Helios 21.2 (1994) 137-159
  • M. Katz, Penelope’s Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey, Princeton (1991) / bmcr
  • D. Levine, “Penelope’s Laugh: Odyssey 18.163,” American Journal of Philology 104 (1983) 172-177 / full text
  • P. Marquardt, “Penelope Polutropos,” American Journal of Philology 106 (1984) 32-48 / full text
  • P. Marquardt, “Penelope as Weaver of Words,” in Woman’s Power, Man’s Game. Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy King edited by M. DeForest (1993)
  • W.E. McDonald, “On Hearing the Silent Voice: Penelope and the Daughters of Pandareus,” Helios 24.1 (1997) 3-22
  • Dominic Montserrat, Changing bodies, changing meanings: studies on the human body in antiquity, London: Routledge (1998) [Contributors: Angus Bowie, Gillian Clark, Richard Hawley, Lynn Meskell, Dominic Montserrat, Penelope Murray, Jane Stevenson, Nicholas Vlahogiannis, Terry Wilfong] / bmcr
  • S. Murnaghan, “Penelope’s Agnoia: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in the Odyssey,” Helios 13 (1986) 103-115
  • M. Nagler, “Penelope’s Male Hand: Gender and Violence in the Odyssey,” Colby Quarterly 29 (1993) 241-257
  • T. Van Nortwick, “Penelope and Nausicaa,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 109 (1979) 269-276 / full text
  • T. Van Nortwick, “Penelope as Double Agent: Odyssey 21.1-60,” CW 77.1 (1983) 26-27
  • G. C. Polk, “Vergil’s Penelope: The Diana Simile in Aeneid 1,” Vergilius 42 (1996) 498-502
  • A. V. Rankin, “Penelope’s Dreams in Books XIX and XX of the Odyssey,” Helikon 2 (1962) 617-624
  • H. M. Roisman, “Penelope’s Indignation,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 117 (1987) 59-68 / full text
  • D. W. Roller and L. K. Roller, “Penelope’s Thick Hand (Odyssey 21.6),” CJ 90.1 (1994) 9-19
  • G. C. Thomas, “Penelope’s Worth: Looming Large in Ancient Greece,” Hermes 116 (1988) 257-264
  • J. J. Winkler, “Penelope’s Cunning and Homer’s,” in The Constraints of Desire. The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece, New York and London: Routledge (1990) / bmcr / web link