How old is Penelope, seeing that her husband has been away for 20 years and that she is still considered fine as fuck? Was she a child-bride?
Why doesn't Penelope just tell her suitors to leave?
Why does Penelope, understanding that Odysseus is near, decide to suddenly hold a contest with herself as the prize?
Was she a child-bride?
Probably. Hesiod recommends us to marry a 15 year old girl when we arrive to our success at 30.
>Why doesn't Penelope just tell her suitors to leave?
Women's opinions ain't shit. Ulysses' is a headless home, its owner being supposedly died and his son being too young to take power over it.
>Why does Penelope, understanding that Odysseus is near, decide to suddenly hold a contest with herself as the prize?
The gods did it mane. Also it serves as a premonition of umexpected Odysseus BTFO of dem gallants
Who is this Grace of Cytherea?
1. It doesn't matter. They all have divine blood and these are days of old.
2. Because they're the ones with the weapons on the island.
3. >woman
Just try working out how old Achilles and Paris must be, seeing as Achilles was born of the marriage the golden apple was thrown at. Even factoring in the ten years after Helen's abduction before the war proper started. It's a mess.
>Why does Penelope, understanding that Odysseus is near, decide to suddenly hold a contest with herself as the prize?
No suitor was able to win the contest and she knew it.
>Why does Penelope, understanding that Odysseus is near, decide to suddenly hold a contest with herself as the prize?
Because she knew Odysseus would win it, duh.
Let's assume 18 when she was married. You don't know any fine-ass 38 year olds? Look at the pic you posted.
>You don't know any fine-ass 38 year olds?
they are fine because they get fucked regularly by 20 yo and 30 yo betas.
A woman who is not fucked regularly withered very fast physically and mentally.
>that pic
Mi pene!
came to post this
Also nice, though Cruz is waifuest
>A woman who is not fucked regularly withered very fast physically and mentally.
You seriously believe Penelope wasn't riding that cock train every night while her cuck of a husband was away?
One of those maid whores would've snitched.
>How old?
Not too old. 20 years isn't all that long.
>Why not tell them to leave?
Grecian guest laws, and they would have said no and probably murdered her son.
>Why hold contest?
Because Homer likes drama? Alternatively: gods.
More importantly, why the fuck didn't Achilles wear better armor around his feet?
Because that's a retarded post-Homeric tradition that's even literally contradicted by the Iliad.
>How old is Penelope, seeing that her husband has been away for 20 years and that she is still considered fine as fuck? Was she a child-bride?
wouldn't her new bride be the new king of Ithica essentially? even if she was ugg there is a lot of value in that
>Why doesn't Penelope just tell her suitors to leave?
I think they were just stubborn and who would enforce it? doesn't Ithaca have guards? I dunno
Why does Penelope, understanding that Odysseus is near, decide to suddenly hold a contest with herself as the prize?
So he could win the contest and kill all the rest. The gods made them believe it was the right thing to do
aristotle said best age for male marriage: 38
female: 19
WHO
Aristotle is way further to the Trojan War than Hesiod tho
>wouldn't her new bride be the new king of Ithica essentially? even if she was ugg there is a lot of value in that
Yeah, plus lots of money and so on.
>More importantly, why the fuck didn't Achilles wear better armor around his feet?
Double bluff ;^b
>tfw when no loli wife
Is that Titcow?
just offering my tidbit.
Which translation/edition of the Odyssey should I read?
>reading translations
Read Pope's. Without a doubt the greatest translation of Homer.
>Knowing all the tens of thousands of languages ever spoken
>Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>Not hiring bards to sing it to you in Greek.
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