adding that she might take this opportunity to talk to Telemachus (which she will indeed do). she simply feels an unprecedented impulse to meet the men she so loathes. Usually the motives of mortal and god coincide, here they do not: Athena wants Penelope to fan the Suitors’ desire for her and (thereby) make her more esteemed by her husband and son Penelope has no real motive. But because Athena wants her "to show herself to the wooers, that she might set their hearts a-flutter and win greater honor from her husband and her son than heretofore", Penelope does eventually appear before the suitors ( xviii 160−162) Irene de Jong wroteĪs so often, it is Athena who takes the initiative in giving the story a new direction. Penelope's efforts to delay remarriage is often seen as a symbol of marital fidelity to her husband, Odysseus. Penelope, bronze by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle Every night for three years, she undoes part of the shroud, until Melantho, a slave, discovers her chicanery and reveals it to the suitors. She has devised cunning tricks to delay the suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished. On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse (1911-1912) She waits twenty years for Odysseus' return, during which time she devises various cunning strategies to delay marrying any of the 108 suitors (led by Antinous and including Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus and Peisandros). She only has one son with Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War. Penelope is married to the main character, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus (Ulysses in Roman mythology), and daughter of Icarius of Sparta and Periboea (or Polycaste). On display at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Role in the Odyssey Penelope by Franklin Simmons (1896), marble. Beekes believed the name to be Pre-Greek and related to pēnelops ( πηνέλοψ) or pēnelōps ( πηνέλωψ). In folk etymology, Pēnelopē ( Πηνελόπη) is usually understood to combine the Greek word pēnē ( πήνη), " weft", and ōps ( ὤψ), "face", which is considered the most appropriate for a cunning weaver whose motivation is hard to decipher. Glossed by Hesychius as "some kind of bird" (today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope), where -elōps ( -έλωψ) is a common Pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals however, the semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear. In one source, Penelope's original name was Arnacia or Arnaea. Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the attention of more than a hundred suitors during his absence. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and naiad Periboea. Penelope ( / p ə ˈ n ɛ l ə p iː/ pə- NEL-ə-pee Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Greek: Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) is a character in Homer's Odyssey. Penelope encounters the returned Odysseus posing as a beggar. For other uses, see Penelope (disambiguation).
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