Atwood says she first read the Odyssey at about fifteen and was unpleasantly struck by the fact that Odysseus, after his triumphal homecoming and reunion with his faithful wife, kills not only the suitors whom...
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's series of retold myths a volume entitled Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, a compelling rendering of the stories fromNorse legend which she first encountered in early childhood.
Harrison, M. John. “Eve of destruction”. Guardian Weekly, 30 Sept. 2011, pp. 39-40.