By Jenna Black
ISBN-10: 1476700117
ISBN-13: 9781476700113
For Immortal Huntress and crafty P.I. Nikki Glass, vengeance trumps all within the most recent novel in Jenna Black’s addictive sequence. Nikki Glass, descendant of Artemis the Huntress, is excited by justice, yet she attracts the road at cold-blooded homicide. Too undesirable she works for Anderson Kane, a god in hide who simply occurs to be the son of a Fury. He desires Konstantin, the deposed chief of the Olympians, useless, and he wishes Nikki’s aid to seek his nemesis down. asserting no to a god should be undesirable for her wellbeing and fitness, yet Nikki isn't any pushover . . . till Konstantin claims accountability for a hearth that destroys her parents’ domestic. Nikki may do something to guard her relatives, and now she units off at the deadliest of hunts, figuring out unmarried fake step may perhaps set off a conflict among Anderson and the Olympians—a conflict Anderson can't desire to win. yet is it attainable she has one other enemy? perhaps even one in her personal condo? because the mysteries deepen and the suspects mount, Nikki needs to attempt to placed the items jointly and trap the genuine perpetrator sooner than blameless humans get stuck within the move hearth.
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9. 72) have a similar connotation. Cf. Motte, 1973, 50-56, cited by Vernant, 1982, 15, n. 10. 10. In die later epic sequel to the Odyssey entitled the Telegony, Odysseus' further adventures included journeys, wars, a second marriage to Kallidike, Queen of the Thesprotians, and death at the hands of Telegonos, his son by Kirke. 357). 11. On the specific poetic significance of "the sign of the bed," see Zeitlin, Chapter 7, this volume. 12. Cf. Foley, 1978. 13. For recent discussions of Penelope, see Murnaghan, 1986, reworked and expanded in Murnaghan, 1987, 118-47; Felson-Rubin, 1987 and 1993; Winkler, 1990; Doherty, 1990; and Katz, 1991, who is especially instructive on Penelope and kleos.
Cf. Felson-Rubin, 1987 and 1993. On Penelope as an independent "moral agent," see Foley, Chapter 6, this volume. 16. Nevertheless, several scholars have argued that Penelope unconsciously or intuitively recognizes Odysseus in Book 19. See, for example, Harsh, 1950; Amory, 1963; Russo, 1982. Cf. Winkler, 1990, 150-61, who describes Penelope as "only 99% certain" that the stranger "was really Odysseus" (160). 17. On the poem's open-endedness and "indeterminacy," especially in regard to Penelope, see Katz, 1991, esp.
Each appeals to, or plays against, audiences' conceptions of females generally as well as the expectations shaped by representations of particular females in the mythology and oral poetic tradition behind the poem. None of these descriptions or representations within the Odyssey is totally authoritative; taken together, they contribute greatly to the poem's narratological, dramatic, and moral complexity. 2 For many readers, the most memorable section of the Odyssey is Odysseus' narrative to the Phaeacians in Books 9-12 of his adventures since leaving Troy.
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