The Oddesy

After I read the odyssey, I noticed that even though Penelope wasn’t mentioned a lot in the story she actually plays a very big role in the story. Penelope is first said to be honest and faithful, but Odysseus describes her as beautiful and trustworthy. I think that she was mostly described as a beautiful rich woman that Odysseus trusted with all of his heart. Penelope also trusted him the same way.

Odysseus went away to fight in the Trojan War and did not come home for twenty years. Before Odysseus left he made Penelope promise that if he did not return home before their son Telemachas became a man (grew a mustache) then she was to remarry a suitor. Penelope did not want to have to remarry and prayed everyday that Odysseus would come home.

After 20 years Odysseus came home and a man disguised him as an old beggar and sent him to take back his home and his wife. Odysseus and Telemachas fought the suitors that were trying to take over his land