
::''For other uses of the name, see Penelope (disambiguation).'' [[Image:Penelope - Homer's Odyssey - Project Gutenberg eText 13725.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Penelope represented as a statue in the Vatican, Rome]] Penelope (Πηνελοπεια) is a character of the ''Odyssey,'' one of the two great epic poetry (the other being the ''Iliad''; both are attributed to Homer) of ancient Greek literature. Her name is close to the Greek work for "duck," but is usually understood to be a combination of the greek word for "web" or "woof" (πηνη) and the word for "face" (ωψ), very appropriate for a weaver of cunning whose motivation is hard to decipher. Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca Odysseus (also known as Ulysses) and daughter of Icarius and his wife Eurynome. She waits twenty years for the final return of her husband from the Trojan War, while she has hard times in refusing marriage proposal from several princes (such as Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus, Irus and Peisandros, led by Antinous) for four years since the fall of Troy. Odysseus, disguised as an old beggar, sees that Penelope has remained faithful to him, pretending to weave a burial shroud for Odysseus' elderly father Laertes and claiming she will choose one suitor when she has finished. Every night for three years she undoes part of the shroud, until the suitors discover her plot. Because of her efforts in putting off remarriage, she is often seen as a symbol of connubial fidelity. However, Penelope is getting antsy (due, in part, to Athena's meddling) and variously calling out for Artemis to kill her and considering marrying one of the suitors. The latter seems to win the day as she announces to the disguised Odysseus that she is planning on having an archery contest to decide which she will marry. This is, of course, the cue for action. Odysseus watched the suitors drink and take advantage of his family's hospitality, and gets more and more angry. The contest of the bow begins, but none of the suitors can string the bow, and Odysseus wins the contest and proceeds to kill them all with help from his son Telemachus, Athena and a servant, Eumaeus. Odysseus has now shown himself in all his glory, and it is standard (in terms of a recognition scene) for all to recognize him and be happy. Penelope, however, cannot believe her husband has really returned (she fears that perhaps it is some god in disguise as Odysseus, as in the story of Alcmene), and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their wedding-chamber. Odysseus protests that this can not be done since he had made the bed himself and knows that one of its legs was a living olive tree, and Penelope finally accepts that he is truly her husband. That moment highlights their homophrosyne (like-mindedness). In one story, after Odysseus' death, she marries his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she was the mother of Italus. ==References== *Homer, ''Odyssey'' * ==External links== *[http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136 ''Odyssey'' in English on the Perseus Project] Greek mythological people Characters in the Odyssey
Z.S.: I made some minor modifications, mainly additions today. I wonder if someone can check the last sentence, because it seems quite confusing, "fishy." (At least for a person whose English a second language.) I have a small mythological dictionary that says that Telemachus was son of Ulysses and Penelope. Telegonus was the son and slayer of Ulysses. Our text: "After Odysseus'death, she (Penelope) married his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she was the mother of Italus." I doubt that Penelope could have married the son of Odysseus. The reason: Penelope had a teenager son when Telegonus (son of Odysseus and Circe) was born in Italy, so herself must have been 25-30 years older than that youngster. Our contributor(s) may have meant something else, but from the text it is unclear who has married whom. It is also hard to believe that a Greek lady would have moved to Italy, to her rival's territory. Hopefully someone can check these doubts in a larger mythological sourcebook. Perhaps a better explanation exists. ---- From the article: ''As dogs normally do not live longer that 18 years, and since the hero's son was just a lad upon his return, he must have been in Ithaca in 1192, when the war broke out.'' That applies to the dogs of epic legend, too? There are lots of places where this sort of analysis on Greek mythology is a very bad idea, so I'm taking this out. ---- Related to the above, I took out the various other dates in the article, because there is no way anyone can seriously attempt to be precise about a mythological event. User:Adam Bishop 21:14, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC) ==Image== Wow, when was that image made? That looks a whole lot like a Mary statue...minus the baby Jesus... User:Adam Bishop 05:13, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) The story of Penelope marrying Odysseus' natural son is part of the ''Telegony''. According to that Telemachos also married Circe. There are also legends that she was banished by Odysseus for being unfaithful while he was gone or that she somehow became the mother of Pan. I'm getting this from the ''Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth & Religion''. What I'm really looking for is the story of how Odysseus won her from her father. Anybody know anything about that? I know a footrace and the help of Helen's father were involved, and I know I've read it somewhere before, but I can't seem to track it down.
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::''For other uses of the name, see Penelope (disambiguation).'' [[Image:Penelope - Homer's Odyssey - Project Gutenberg eText 13725.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Penelope represented as a statue in the Vatican, Rome]] Penelope (Πηνελοπεια) is a character of the ''Odyssey,'' one of the two great epic poetry (the other being the ''Iliad''; both are attributed to Homer) of ancient Greek literature. Her name is close to the Greek work for "duck," but is usually understood to be a combination of the greek word for "web" or "woof" (πηνη) and the word for "face" (ωψ), very appropriate for a weaver of cunning whose motivation is hard to decipher. Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca Odysseus (also known as Ulysses) and daughter of Icarius and his wife Eurynome. She waits twenty years for the final return of her husband from the Trojan War, while she has hard times in refusing marriage proposal from several princes (such as Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus, Irus and Peisandros, led by Antinous) for four years since the fall of Troy. Odysseus, disguised as an old beggar, sees that Penelope has remained faithful to him, pretending to weave a burial shroud for Odysseus' elderly father Laertes and claiming she will choose one suitor when she has finished. Every night for three years she undoes part of the shroud, until the suitors discover her plot. Because of her efforts in putting off remarriage, she is often seen as a symbol of connubial fidelity. However, Penelope is getting antsy (due, in part, to Athena's meddling) and variously calling out for Artemis to kill her and considering marrying one of the suitors. The latter seems to win the day as she announces to the disguised Odysseus that she is planning on having an archery contest to decide which she will marry. This is, of course, the cue for action. Odysseus watched the suitors drink and take advantage of his family's hospitality, and gets more and more angry. The contest of the bow begins, but none of the suitors can string the bow, and Odysseus wins the contest and proceeds to kill them all with help from his son Telemachus, Athena and a servant, Eumaeus. Odysseus has now shown himself in all his glory, and it is standard (in terms of a recognition scene) for all to recognize him and be happy. Penelope, however, cannot believe her husband has really returned (she fears that perhaps it is some god in disguise as Odysseus, as in the story of Alcmene), and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their wedding-chamber. Odysseus protests that this can not be done since he had made the bed himself and knows that one of its legs was a living olive tree, and Penelope finally accepts that he is truly her husband. That moment highlights their homophrosyne (like-mindedness). In one story, after Odysseus' death, she marries his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she was the mother of Italus. ==References== *Homer, ''Odyssey'' * ==External links== *[http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136 ''Odyssey'' in English on the Perseus Project] Greek mythological people Characters in the Odyssey
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Z.S.: I made some minor modifications, mainly additions today. I wonder if someone can check the last sentence, because it seems quite confusing, "fishy." (At least for a person whose English a second language.) I have a small mythological dictionary that says that Telemachus was son of Ulysses and Penelope. Telegonus was the son and slayer of Ulysses. Our text: "After Odysseus'death, she (Penelope) married his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she was the mother of Italus." I doubt that Penelope could have married the son of Odysseus. The reason: Penelope had a teenager son when Telegonus (son of Odysseus and Circe) was born in Italy, so herself must have been 25-30 years older than that youngster. Our contributor(s) may have meant something else, but from the text it is unclear who has married whom. It is also hard to believe that a Greek lady would have moved to Italy, to her rival's territory. Hopefully someone can check these doubts in a larger mythological sourcebook. Perhaps a better explanation exists. ---- From the article: ''As dogs normally do not live longer that 18 years, and since the hero's son was just a lad upon his return, he must have been in Ithaca in 1192, when the war broke out.'' That applies to the dogs of epic legend, too? There are lots of places where this sort of analysis on Greek mythology is a very bad idea, so I'm taking this out. ---- Related to the above, I took out the various other dates in the article, because there is no way anyone can seriously attempt to be precise about a mythological event. User:Adam Bishop 21:14, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC) ==Image== Wow, when was that image made? That looks a whole lot like a Mary statue...minus the baby Jesus... User:Adam Bishop 05:13, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) The story of Penelope marrying Odysseus' natural son is part of the ''Telegony''. According to that Telemachos also married Circe. There are also legends that she was banished by Odysseus for being unfaithful while he was gone or that she somehow became the mother of Pan. I'm getting this from the ''Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth & Religion''. What I'm really looking for is the story of how Odysseus won her from her father. Anybody know anything about that? I know a footrace and the help of Helen's father were involved, and I know I've read it somewhere before, but I can't seem to track it down.
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