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Encyclopedia Britannica



PENELOPE

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 88 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PENELOPE , in Greek legend, wife of Odysseus, daughter of Icarius and the nymph Periboea. During the
long
 
absence
  of her husband after the fall of Troy many chieftains of Ithaca and the islands round about became her suitors; and, to rid herself of the importunities of the wcoers, she bade them wait till she had
woven
  a winding-
sheet
  for old Laertes, the father of Odysseus. But every night she undid the piece which she had
woven
  by day. This she did for three years, till her maids revealed the
secret
 . She was relieved by the arrival of Odysseus, who returned after an
absence
  of twenty years, and slew the wooers. The character of Penelope is less favourable in
late
  writers than in the Homeric story. During her husband's absence she is said to have become the
mother
  of Pan by Hermes, and Odysseus, on his return, repudiated her as unfaithful (
Herodotus
  H. 145 and schol.). She thereupon withdrew to
Sparta
  and thence to Mantineia, where she died and where her tomb was shown. According to another account she married Telegonus the son of Odysseus and Circe, after he had killed his father, and dwelt with him in the
island
  of Aeala or in the Islands of the Blest (Hyginus, Feb. 127).


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