Penelope

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.8 Penelope

  Ulysses' faithful wife; the cynical bawd reinterprets even her bow-contest as a test of the suitors' bodily vigor.

• The Art of Love §1.13 Penelope

  Faithful wife of Ulysses, byword for the unwinnable woman who yields at last to persistence.

• The Art of Love §2.17 Penelope

  The faithful wife of Ulysses, whose long-absent husband kept her love alive.

• The Heroides §1 Penelope

  Faithful wife of Ulysses, who waited twenty years on Ithaca; the speaker of this first letter, written as the war ends but her husband has not returned.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.1 a rival of Penelope

  Penelope, who by guile (the unfinished web) held off her suitors during Ulysses' absence; a model of the faithful wife awaiting her lord.

• Ibis §12 Icarius' daughter

  Penelope, daughter of Icarius, whose twelve disloyal maids were hanged and whose suitors were slain by Ulysses.

• Metamorphoses §13.410 Penelope

  Ulysses's faithful wife, to whom Hecuba is allotted as a slave.

• Metamorphoses §14.461 the wife of too-tardy Ulysses

  Penelope, besieged by suitors during Ulysses's long delay in returning from Troy.

• Sorrows §1.6 Penelope

  Ulysses' faithful wife, the supreme model of marital constancy.