Term

Penelope

Odysseus’ wife in Homer’s “Odyssey”. Waiting for her husband, she wove cloth by day and unravelled it by night, to put off a new marriage.

Phaedo, Plato

Explained in

• Phaedo, Plato
• The Odyssey, Homer

  Wife of Odysseus, daughter of Icarius. She waits twenty years for her husband and holds the suitors off by cunning.

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