Penelope Of Sparta - Blog Posts

*a few months after The Ithaca Saga*

Odysseus: *wakes up at the dead of night drenched in cold sweat*

Penelope: Love? What's wrong?

Odysseus: That prophet son of a bitch- IT WAS ME!

Penelope: What??

Odysseus: I WAS THE MAN WHO WAS HAUNTING ALL ALONG!!

Penelope: *pulling him down and hugging him* ok dear just go back to sleep.

*meanwhile in the Underworld*

Tiresias: Fucking finally that dumbass

Poseidon: How will you sleep at night?

Odysseus: Next to my wife.

Poseidon: And do you think she'll be proud of you torturing a god?!

Odysseus: Dude, she's from Sparta. Me telling her this is gonna be like foreplay for her.

The defeated and bloodied king was chained to kneel in front of his enemy and he says weakly: "Is my wife still alive?" His enemy nodded. "You fools," he said smirking, and the king starts laughing as the sounds of explosions getting closer shake the room.

Definitely a fashionista!! I'm sure Athena secretly (or maybe not so secretly) just likes to give people makeovers, and she was delighted to have the opportunity to put her hobby into practice 😂 Your translation is so clear and interesting as always! Oinment used by Aphrodite's herself must be a great honor! And the physical attributes are interesting as well! Her looking taller and the comparison to elephant's ivory!

The actress is definitely fitting choice for the role! I also like how she appears mature, as a woman who was waiting for her husband for decades, yet she's stunning indeed, definitely someone a number of suiters would be after hehehe awesome stuff girl✨

Athena and her makeovers! Or as my friend @artsofmetamoor said "a fashionista"

First she cleansed her face with a divine ointment, similar to the one the Kythereia (Aphrodite=lady of Kythera or the one born in Kythera) uses when she desires to join the dances with the Charites and he made her look taller and stouter/more majestic and he made her look whiter than the elephant's tusk ivory

(Translation by me)

Man Athena surely loves to give her two lovebirds makeovers doesn't she?! And yay for some partial Penelope description! She is probably tall for a woman (we do not know her actual height of course) and stoutly or regarly built and has ivory-white skin! And all of the above are toned up by Athena!

Makes me feel even more how amazing the casting of the phenomenal Greek actress Irene Papas was as Penelope in the Italian-German-French co-production of the Odyssey in 1968! (my favorite live action adaptation to this day!) I mean...look at this beauty!

The face, the eyes...even her age is great choice and yet she remains a beauty! And such commanding presence and intense look too! She was just perfect for this role!