Barbara Clayton teaches in the Classics Department and Introduction to the Humanities Program at Stanford University.

• Chapter 1 Not the Iliad: Reconsidering a Gendered Approach to the OdysseyChapter 2 Unweaving to Reweave: Poetry and ProcessChapter 3 Reweaving Identities: Odysseus' Lies and the Tale of the ScarChapter 4 Weaver and Artist: Surveying a Penelope TraditionChapter 5 Conclusion

In A Penelopean Poetics, Barbara Clayton defines the true texture of Homer's Odyssey. Carefully attending to the warp and woof of recent scholarship on Greek epic and oral poetry as well as recent psychoanalytic and feminist criticism, Clayton beautifully and simply identifies precisely those threads in the weave of the poem that are most Penelopean in their subtle cunning. In her surprising yet persuasive new reading, Odysseus and Homer emerge as most themselves when they are most like Penelope.