Greek mythology
Penelope
The faithful queen who outwaited a hundred suitors
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Children
- Telemachus
- Group
- Heroes · Mortal · Love
- Appears in
- The Odyssey
- Places
- Ithaca
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Penelope is the wife of Odysseus, who holds Ithaca together through twenty years of his absence. Besieged by suitors who devour her household, she weaves a burial shroud by day and unravels it each night, vowing to choose a husband only when it is done. When Odysseus returns in disguise, she sets the test of his great bow and knows him by the secret of their immovable marriage bed.
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- Who is Penelope?
- Penelope is the wife of Odysseus, who holds Ithaca together through twenty years of his absence. Besieged by suitors who devour her household, she weaves a burial shroud by day and unravels it each night, vowing to choose a husband only when it is done.
- Which mythology does Penelope belong to?
- Penelope belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Penelope appear in?
- Penelope appears in The Odyssey, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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