#hellenic aesthetic

I'm deep in my Penelope & Odysseus novel, and I’m rebuilding Penelope from the ground up — not as a waiting wife, but as the sharp, observant, politically dangerous girl who will one day rule Ithaca.

But I want to hear your version of her.

What do you think Penelope was like before the Odyssey? • calculating or romantic? • shy or steel-spined? • secretly chaotic? • the smartest person in the room (because same)

🏛 GREEK GODS AESTHETICS 🏛 ↳ Hermes

Before the songs were sung,

before the years were counted,

there was a woman learning the shape of endurance.

Loom and olive.

Stone and sea.

This is where her story begins.

#PenelopeRetelling #MythicMood

#AncientStories #WomenInMyth

This is not the Penelope the poets told you about.

They softened her. They sanctified her. They carved her into a the image of a woman that suited them best.

My Penelope is not modest. She is precise. She is disciplined. She is a daughter of Sparta, raised in a world where silence can wound sharper than a blade.

She does not appear only to wait for Odysseus They find each other long before war claims him. Two brilliant minds circling, calculating, colliding. Cohesive.

She is not a player on suitors stage She is the playwright of her own. The loom is not her cage it is the language she speaks loudest

And Odysseus? He is drawn to her from the beginning.

This is the story before the war. Before the lies. Before the poets.