ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the representation of weaving in Homer in narratives that focus on female figures and argues that textile activity as represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey becomes a coded reference that engenders activity, time and temporality. In different scenes, the loom is seen as a temporal marker, placed in narratives that discuss ruptures, beginnings and ends. The emphasis on weaving in scenes that involve female figures evokes the soundscape of weaving; it also gives the sense that woven fabrics are tangible products that mark time and temporality in the poems but also surpass time.
