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Odysseus and Penelope before Ody leaving for war
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Kiss Kiss Kiss
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"I miss Odysseus; my heart is melting. / The suitors want to push me into marriage, but I spin schemes... By day I wove the web, / and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it."
I made this feverish, unwinding loom for @youremysunshine8 's bday, since she is reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.
It's made from an old painting frame with the canvas removed. I painted the wood a darker color and hammered in a couple hundred tacks, which I strung with white yarn.
The weaving itself took a long time, since I've never done that before and wasn't using a real loom, though I did make a make-shift heddle from a ruler. The meander is woven in soumak, which means you wrap the weft around each warp instead of just going over-under; this takes a long time but gives it a really cool dimension.
I carved Penelope's hands from chipboard, and painted them the same color as the loom. I wanted to convey the "muscular, firm hand" from Wilson's translation.
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Over and over again
Penelope design is by @mushyooms (I love your art sm!) Click for better quality :D
EXPLODED ON SIGHT I LOVE THEMMMM, THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG!!!!
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it's done. enjoy
also shoutout to this comment that was posted under the gif of polites dancing with the colour flickering and it almost made me keep it LMFAO
YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/7ODMWQQinlM?si=6ptGGjXmPrNoB7mf
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5 year anniversary of the miette post \o/
On This Day In History
I NEEARLY MISSED HER
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Athena favors Penelope because of who she is, not because of who her husband and son are.
The text even states as such.
"[...] on the score of the accomplishments Minerva has taught her, and because she is so clever. We never heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmena, Mycene, and the famous women of old, but they were nothing to your mother any one of them."
(Book 2, Butler)
"[...] counting too much on matchless gifts that she owes to Athene, her skill in fine handicraft, her excellent brain, and that genius she has for getting her way. In that respect, I grant she has no equal, not even in story. For of all the Achaean beauties of former times, there is not one, not Tyro, nor Alcmene, nor Mycene of the lovely diadem, who had at her command such wits as she. Yet in the present case Penelope has used those wits amiss."
(Book 2, Rieu)
[...] because in her heart she knows that she’s been given by Athena, more than any other woman, a skill in making lovely things, a noble heart, and cunning of a sort we never hear of in any fair-haired woman of Achaea, even the ones who lived so long ago— like Tyro, Alcmene, and Mycene, the woman who wore the lovely headband— not one of them had shrewdness which could match Penelope’s.
(Book 2, Johnston)
Antinous is the one who is saying this but regardless, everyone considers Penelope to be favored by Athena. I think people forget that Penelope's role is very sneaky and sly in the Odyssey; of course not everything about her is "spelled out" for you because just as she tricks the trickster, her husband Odysseus, she tricks the AUDIENCE to a degree.
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