Penelope from the odyssey biography channel
Penelope from the odyssey biography channel
About penelope from the odyssey.
Penelope
Wife of Odysseus in Greek mythology
For other uses, see Penelope (disambiguation).
Fictional character
Penelope ([1]pə-NEL-ə-pee; Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē)[2] is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Asterodia.[3] Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the attention of more than a hundred suitors during his absence.
In one source, Penelope's original name was Arnacia or Arnaea.[4]
Etymology
Glossed by Hesychius as "some kind of bird"[5] (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;[6] however, the semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear.
In folk etymology, Pēnelopē (Πηνελόπη) is usually unde