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Πηνελόπη.........Penelope

WISH YOU A SUNNY AND PEACEFUL WEEK...............

HERE THE STORY (who does'nt know:).................

"Penelope is the wife of the king of Ithaca, Odysseus , and daughter of Icarius and his wife Periboea. She only has one son by Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War.

She waits twenty years for the final return of her husband,during which she has a hard time snubbing marriage proposals from odious suitors ..................She has devised tricks to delay her suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished.

Every night for three years, she undoes part of the shroud.............beginnig the next day again!.........

 

On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. (wikipedia)

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