These imperious young bucks been eating her out of house and home while laying siege to her as a marriage prize once, as they expect, she finally sees reason and recognizes that her husband will never come back from Troy. The twelve maids are the young slave women who became the sexual partners of the bullying, oppressive, arrogant dandies, gathered at Odysseus’s home to seek the hand of Penelope. Penelope has been known through the centuries as the epitome of the faithful wife for waiting twenty years for the return of Odysseus, but, in the context of modern-day feminism, that seems a narrow-minded, restrictive pigeon-hole in which to put her.
In The Penelopiad, her 2005 revisualization of The Odyssey from the point of view of Penelope, Margaret Atwood uses the queen of Ithaca’s twelve maids as a Greek chorus to comment on the action - including their own brutal execution by hanging.
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