The film illustrates the rich descriptions of landscapes and the emotional depth of the characters, particularly the poignant reunion between Odysseus and his wife, Penelope. Keywords Odyssey ...

A key scene where Odysseus and Penelope finally reunite is emotionally powerful, showcasing the ache of absence and war. From Troy to O Brother, Where Art Thou? to even The SpongeBob SquarePants ...

As the epic poem tells us, the Trojan War kept King Odysseus of Ithaca away from his wife, Queen Penelope, for 20 years. He has spent the first 10 of those years fighting the war, and another 10 o ...

A sequence of reunions occupies the epic’s second half. Odysseus meets his son, a mother figure – an enslaved nurse named Eurycleia – his wife Penelope and his father, Laertes. In each case he lies to ...

Suitors hound Queen Penelope (Juliette Binoche) and threaten their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer), and Odysseus has to overcome PTSD and other issues to realize the man he needs to be now.

While named “The Odyssey” after Homer’s iconic epic poem, the play does more than focus on Odysseus. Penelope is introduced in the first full scene of the play — a major shift from ...

The Return, directed by Uberto Pasolini, with Ralph Fiennes (Odysseus), Juliette Binoche (Penelope), Charlie Plummer (Telemachus), Marwan Kenzari (Antinous), Claudio Santamaria (Eumaeus).

is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Odysseus has changed too. Scarred by his experience of war ...

And the singer-narrator who’ll take up the central microphone for an excursion through that landscape of waiting is the lady herself: Penelope, wife of Odysseus, daughter of Icarius, mother of ...

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting in the Trojan War, then outsmarting sirens, sea monsters ...

The world premiere of “Penelope” a new musical about Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, begins performances this weekend at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, New York. It runs there ...