珀涅罗珀记

1 (p1): 低俗艺术
5 (p2): 合唱歌词：跳绳式韵律
9 (p3): 我的童年
14 (p4): 合唱歌词：小孩儿的哀歌（挽诗一首）
17 (p5): 长春花
24 (p6): 我的婚事
35 (p7): 伤疤
44 (p8): 合唱歌词：如果我是公主（流行歌调）
47 (p9): 备受信赖的咯咯母鸡
55 (p10): 合唱歌词：忒勒马科斯的诞生（牧歌）
59 (p11): 海伦毁了我的生活
67 (p12): 望穿秋水
76 (p13): 合唱歌词：老谋深算的海船长（船夫曲）
82 (p14): 求婚人大吃大喝
90 (p15): 寿衣
98 (p16): 噩梦
102 (p17): 合唱歌词：理想爱人（民谣）
105 (p18): 海伦的消息
111 (p19): 喜极而呼
117 (p20): 流言蜚语
120 (p21): 合唱歌词：珀涅罗珀之险（舞台剧）
126 (p22): 海伦洗澡
130 (p23): 奥德修斯和忒勒马科斯杀了女仆
135 (p24): 合唱歌词：人类学演讲
140 (p25): 铁石心肠
145 (p26): 合唱歌词：奥德修斯的审判（由女仆制作成录像带）
154 (p27): 冥府的家居生活
160 (p28): 合唱歌词：我们走在你后面（情歌）
163 (p29): 使节
166 (p30): 后记
168 (p31): 附：本书中出现的主要希腊神话人物表 Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in the Odyssey doesn't hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I've always been haunted by the hanged maids and, in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin presents a cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the twelve maids hanged for disloyalty to Odysseus in his absence.