Thursday, October 22, 2009

a change in order

"Tend to your own tasks, the distaff and the loom, and keep the women working hard as well. As for giving orders, men will see to that, but I most of all: I hold the reins of power in this house."

-Prince Telemachus
Book 1 Athena Inspires the Prince
[348-78]


This point of the story, the prince is starting to take control of her mother's power as ruler. Without his father as king, Telemachus will take charge in his absent. Athena realised that her son is just like his father.

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