Penelope

Married to Odysseus, she waits twenty years for him to return from Troy.

Genealogy

Periboea

Icarius

Aletes, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Perileos, Thoas

Odysseus, Telegonus

Pan, Poliporthes, Telemachus

Places
  1. Aeaea
  2. Islands of the Blest
  3. Ithaca
  4. Mantinea
  5. Unknown
Events
  1. Penelope promises her suitors that she will marry when she has completed a shroud for Laertes
  2. Penelope weaves Laertes’ shroud during the day and secretly unravels it at night
  3. Penelope’s suitors discover that she has been unravelling Laertes’ shroud
  4. Penelope agrees to marry whichever of her suitors can bend Odysseus’ bow
  5. Odysseus reveals his identity to Penelope
  6. Telegonus takes Penelope with Odysseus’ corpse to Circe
  7. Telegonus marries Penelope
  8. Circe sends Telegonus and Penelope to the Islands of the Blest
  9. Telegonus and Penelope reside in the Islands of the Blest
  10. Antinous seduces Penelope
  11. Odysseus sends Penelope back to her father
  12. Penelope gives birth to Pan
  13. Amphinomus seduces Penelope
  14. Odysseus kills Penelope for her infidelity
  15. The Suitors of Penelope eat Odysseus’ herds at feasts
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 10.6
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 10.9
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.7
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 7.26
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 7.31
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 7.33
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 7.35
  8. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 7.37
  9. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 7.38
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 12.2
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 12.4
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 13.6
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 20.10
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 20.11
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 12.5
  16. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 12.6
  17. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 41.5
  18. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 30.1
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