person
Penelope
also: Πηνελόπεια, Πηνελόπη, circumspect Penelope, daughter of Icarius
Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus, who has held off more than a hundred suitors for years by cunning, most famously by unweaving Laertes's shroud each night.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §1.222 Penelope
Odysseus's wife, who has fended off the suitors for years by cunning, most famously the unweaving of Laertes's shroud.
- The Odyssey §4.78 steadfast Penelope
Odysseus's wife; Menelaus imagines her, with Laertes and Telemachus, still grieving Odysseus's long absence.
Mentioned in 1 work (73 mentions)
The Odyssey
- §1.222 Penelope
- §1.315 daughter of Icarius
- §2.103 Penelope
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- §4.673 Penelope
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- §4.778 circumspect Penelope
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- §4.836 daughter of Icarius
- §5.215 circumspect Penelope
- §11.441 daughter of Icarius
- §13.393 Penelope
- §14.166 Penelope
- §14.361 circumspect Penelope
- §15.10 circumspect Penelope
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- §16.434 daughter of Icarius
- §16.447 Penelope
- §17.153 circumspect Penelope
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- §17.381 Penelope
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- §17.541 Penelope
- §17.553 circumspect Penelope
- §17.561 daughter of Icarius
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- §17.580 circumspect Penelope
- §17.84 circumspect Penelope
- §18.151 daughter of Icarius
- §18.170 circumspect Penelope
- §18.185 daughter of Icarius
- §18.243 Penelope
- §18.245 daughter of Icarius
- §18.281 daughter of Icarius
- §18.320 Penelope
- §19.100 circumspect Penelope
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- §19.363 daughter of Icarius
- §19.47 circumspect Penelope
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- §19.89 circumspect Penelope
- §20.384 daughter of Icarius
- §21.1 daughter of Icarius
- §21.152 Penelope
- §21.288 circumspect Penelope
- §21.321 daughter of Icarius
- §22.420 Penelope
- §22.481 Penelope
- §23.165 circumspect Penelope
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- §23.40 circumspect Penelope
- §23.5 circumspect Penelope
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- §24.192 daughter of Icarius
- §24.281 Penelope
- §24.400 circumspect Penelope