Several alternate versions of this text comprise the first novel by Zachary Mason.
Several alternate versions of this text comprise the first novel by Zachary Mason. Its protagonist is given a name meaning "he who causes pain", and is also commonly referred to with the epithet "polymetis". Its complex female characters led both Samuel Butler and Robert Graves to theorize that it was written by a Sicilian woman. Its eleventh (*) book contains a sequence of conversations with ghosts called the nekuia, while in its ninth book, the protagonist adopts the pseudonym "outis", or "nobody". Another of its characters weaves and undoes a shroud for her father in order to delay a group of her suitors. For 10 points, name this poem whose three narrative threads center on Telemachus, Penelope, and the namesake Ithacan hero, a Homeric epic.
Several alternate versions of this text comprise the first novel by Zachary Mason.
The Odyssey [or Odysseia]