Penelope : Princess of Lakonia
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The book is a non-fictional supplement to Bardot Book ISBN(9) 0-9796303-1-2 or ISBN(13) 978-0-9796303-1-6, a short story and a novella under the same cover. We hope to offer our erudite classical buffs the mythological analysis and literary interpretation that has allowed us to synthesize an autobiogrpahy of Penelope in her own voice of colloquy by dictation to our contemporary master Mentor. The book is topical but all elements are holistic to our general departure from literary pre-Classicism, wherein the earliest Greeks are too often anachronisms of the people they really were.
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The book is a Supplement to a book of the same title heading - a fictional colloquy about the comings-of-age of Penelope, her sister Ipthime and her first cousins born into their royal House of Oebalos. The biography of Penelope is addressed for the difficulties of its analysis of just where her birthplace was: Aetolia or Lakonia? The Supplement also places the prehistorical analysis upon the biography of her father Ikarios and what else can be known as verifiable about her sister Iphthime. The major episodes of the sisters' girlhood years, as told by Penelope in Colloquy, are also set against the culture of the Late Helladic Greeks as we can best know them in broad setting of Lakonia, the precursor region to Lacedaemonia . The content is both culturally anthropological and and ethnological about the forbears of the natives whom the Spartans would later dominate throughout the 1st millenium BC.
About the Author
S W Bardot is the pseudonym of the Translator for the Bardot Group, a symposium of scholars whose studies are concentrated in the Eastern Mediterranean of the Late Bronze Age civilizations. It's particularly involved in the finds of entablature of Mentor son-of-Alkimos, whom most know as the lifelong friend of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey. Since 2008 there have been several books self-published under the dba of the proprietary publisher of Bardot Books, Mr. R Bacon Whitney. This edition is particular to the famous heroine of epic - Penelope daughter-of-Ikarios and Odysseus' wife.