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πŸ‘€ Penelope

  • Didymos says that Penelope was called Arnacia or Amarice when she was young. See Eustathios ad Od. 1422.5-9.
  • Information
    wife of Odysseus
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165769
    PALP
    http://palp.art/browse/penelope
    Trismegistos
    https://www.trismegistos.org/name/46223
    Digital LIMC
    https://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/1/080E/1rvUPPOVRqyhFwo8hl5JCAr
    Gender
    Female
    Birth
    Birth is narrated
    Death
    Becomes immortalDeath is narrated
    Daughter of
    πŸ‘€ Icarios (Spartan)πŸ‘€ Periboia (Spartan)πŸ‘€ Polycaste (Acarnanian)
    Mother of
    πŸ‘€ Telemachos son of OdysseusπŸ‘€ Poliporthes son of OdysseusπŸ‘€ Pan (god) god of flocks, of varying parentageπŸ‘€ Arcesilaos son of Odysseus, perhaps to be identified with Poliporthes
    Wife of
    πŸ‘€ OdysseusπŸ‘€ Telegonos (s. of Odysseus)
    Has children with
    πŸ‘€ OdysseusπŸ‘€ HermesπŸ‘₯ the Suitors of Penelope on Ithaca
    Born at
    🌍 Sparta (Laconia)🌍 Acarnania
    Creates
    🏺 the Burial Shroud of Laertes
    Dies at
    🌍 Ithaca (island)🌍 Mantineia (Arcadia)
    Killed by
    πŸ‘€ Odysseus
    Buried at
    πŸ›οΈ the Tomb of Penelope (Arcadia)
    Has post-mortem existence at
    🌍 the Isles of the Blessed (unlocated)
    Dwelling
    πŸ›οΈ the Palace of Odysseus (Ithaca)
    Related entities
    πŸ‘€ OdysseusπŸ‘€ TelemachosπŸ‘₯ the Suitors of Penelope on IthacaπŸ›οΈ the Palace of Odysseus (Ithaca)🏺 the Burial Shroud of Laertes🏺 the Bow of OdysseusπŸ‘€ PoliporthesπŸ‘€ CirceπŸ‘€ Telegonos (s. of Odysseus)🌍 Aiaia (unlocatable)🌍 the Isles of the Blessed (unlocated)πŸ‘€ AntinoosπŸ‘€ Icarios (Spartan)🌍 Ithaca (island)πŸ‘€ Pan (god)🌍 Mantineia (Arcadia)πŸ‘€ HermesπŸ‘€ Amphinomos (suitor)πŸ‘€ Aletes (Spartan)πŸ‘€ DamasipposπŸ‘€ ImeusimosπŸ‘€ Periboia (Spartan)πŸ‘€ Perileos (Spartan)πŸ‘€ Thoas (Spartan)πŸ‘€ Tyndareos🌍 Sparta (Laconia)🏺 the Statue of AidosπŸ›οΈ the Aphetaid Road (Sparta)🏺 the Statue of Athena CeleutheaπŸ‘€ Eurymachos (suitor II)🏺 the Golden Necklace of PenelopeπŸ‘€ AthenaπŸ‘€ MenelaosπŸ‘€ Nestor🌍 Pylos (Messenia)πŸ‘€ Phemios (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ Leiocritos (suitor)πŸ‘€ AigyptiosπŸ‘€ HalithersesπŸ‘€ Mentor (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ Pisenor (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ LaertesπŸ‘€ Medon (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ DoliosπŸ‘€ the Eidolon of IphthimeπŸ‘€ Eurynome (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ Hippodameia (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ Autonoe (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ Melantho (Ithacan)🏺 the Silver and Ivory Chair🏺 the Golden Brooch of OdysseusπŸ‘€ EumaiosπŸ‘€ PhiloitiosπŸ‘€ LeiodesπŸ‘€ Melanthios (Ithacan)πŸ‘€ EurycleiaπŸ‘€ Daughter of Actor (name unknown)πŸ‘€ Theoclymenos (s. of Polypheides)πŸ‘€ ArcesilaosπŸ‘€ Peisandros (suitor)πŸ‘€ Eurydamas (suitor)πŸ‘€ Iphthime (d. of Icarios)πŸ›οΈ the Bed of Odysseus and Penelope🌍 ArcadiaπŸ‘€ Nauplios (f. of Palamedes)πŸ‘€ AphroditeπŸ‘€ AreteπŸ‘€ HeraπŸ‘€ Theano (Trojan)πŸ‘€ AlyzosπŸ‘€ LeucadiosπŸ‘€ Polycaste (Acarnanian)🌍 AcarnaniaπŸ‘€ ArtemisπŸ‘₯ the Twelve Slaves of PenelopeπŸ‘€ PalamedesπŸ‘€ Euryalos (Epirote)πŸ›οΈ the Tomb of Penelope (Arcadia)
    Mentioned by
    πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 3.7πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.31πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.26-7.33πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.32-7.33πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.33πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.35πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.37πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.38πŸ“– Apollodoros, Epitome 7.39πŸ“– Apollodoros, Library 3.10.6πŸ“– Apollodoros, Library 3.10.9πŸ“– Pausanias 3.20.10-3.20.11πŸ“– Pausanias 3.12.1-3.12.2πŸ“– Pausanias 3.12.4πŸ“– Pausanias 8.12.6πŸ“– Pausanias 3.13.6πŸ“– Pausanias 9.41.1-9.41.5πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 1.213-1.229πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 1.271-1.305πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 1.325-1.364πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 2.6-2.259πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 2.50-2.59πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 2.224-2.227πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 4.667-4.714πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 4.735-4.741πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 4.795-4.847πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 17.481-17.504πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 18.158-18.184πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 18.291-18.306πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 18.320-18.336πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 19.53-19.59πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 19.225-19.260πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 21.140-21.269πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 21.359-21.434πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 23.181-23.230πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 2.84-2.128πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 11.152-11.224πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 15.508-15.557πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 16.112-16.134πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 16.324-16.341πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 16.342-16.447πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 17.67-17.100πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 17.505-17.527πŸ“– Telegony fr. 4 WestπŸ“– Telegony fr. 6 WestπŸ“– Telegony Argumentum 4 WestπŸ“– Asios fr. 10 WestπŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 19.65-19.95πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 19.96-19.102πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 19.123-19.161πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 21.80-21.97πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 21.42-21.81πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 21.287-21.310πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 23.288-23.296πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 24.98-24.204πŸ“– Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 2.1 MacLeodπŸ“– Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 2.2 MacLeodπŸ“– Lucian, A True Story 2.29πŸ“– Lucian, Essays in Portraiture 20πŸ“– Lucian, Essays in Portraiture Defended 7πŸ“– Lucian, The Runaways 21πŸ“– Strabo 10.2.9πŸ“– Ovid, Ibis 391-392πŸ“– Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 12.1πŸ“– Strabo 10.2.24πŸ“– Strabo 14.1.23πŸ“– Ovid, Amores 1.8πŸ“– Lycophron, Alexandra 768-800πŸ“– Lycophron, Alexandra 801-819πŸ“– Strabo 12.3.20-12.3.25πŸ“– Ovid, Amores 2.18πŸ“– Ovid, Amores 3.4πŸ“– Ovid, Amores 3.9πŸ“– Lucian, Essays in Portraiture Defended 25πŸ“– Lucian, A True Story 2.35-2.36πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 22.417-22.473πŸ“– Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.296-13.349πŸ“– Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.508-13.575πŸ“– Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.654-14.697πŸ“– Philocles FragTrag test. 1 = test. 1-2 Snell-KannichtπŸ“– Pliny, Natural History 35.62-35.63πŸ“– Ovid, Heroides 1πŸ“– Eustathios, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1417.24-1417.28πŸ“– Eustathios, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1422.5-1422.9πŸ“– Eustathios, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1435.47-1435.58πŸ“– Lycophron, Alexandra 757-773πŸ“– Parthenios, Erotica Pathemata 3πŸ“– Plutarch, Greek Questions 48
    Mentioned in text
    Apollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryPausaniasHomer, Odyssey TelegonyAsiosLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, A True StoryLucian, Essays in PortraitureLucian, Essays in Portraiture DefendedLucian, The RunawaysStraboOvid, IbisLucian, Dialogues of the CourtesansOvid, AmoresLycophron, AlexandraOvid, MetamorphosesPhiloclesPliny, Natural HistoryOvid, HeroidesEustathios, Commentary on Homer's OdysseyParthenios, Erotica PathemataPlutarch, Greek Questions
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    TelegonyHomer, Odyssey AlcmaionidDemetrios of ScepsisDidymosLycophron, AlexandraHerodotos, HistoriesSophocles
    Mentioned in citation of
    πŸ“– Telegony fr. 3 WestπŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 18.291-18.306πŸ“– Alcmaionid fr. 6 Davies = fr. 5 WestπŸ“– Demetrios of Scepsis BNJ 2013 fr. 45πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 21.1-21.41πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 17.1-17.44πŸ“– Homer, Odyssey 11.271-11.280πŸ“– Didymos p. 363 SchmidtπŸ“– Lycophron, Alexandra 757-773πŸ“– Herodotos, Histories 2.145πŸ“– Sophocles fr. 205 Radt
    Depictions
    🎨 "Melian" Terracotta Relief (CAMU Ξ” 2151)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Cinque Scheletri VI 10, 2, Pompeii (MANN 9107, 9002, 8999; PALP r6-i10-p2-space-6)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa della Regina Margherita V 2, 1, Pompeii (LIMC Amymone 27; PALP r5-i2-p1-space-p)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Dioscuri VI 9, 6.7, Pompeii (MANN 8998; PALP r6-i9-p6-space-53)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Championnet I; VIII 2, 1, Pompeii (Pompeii 14231; PALP r8-i2-p1)🎨 Wall Paintings from Market VII 9, 7, Pompeii (PALP r7-i9-p7-space-d)πŸ›οΈ the Fourth-Century Temple of Ephesian Artemis at Ephesos
    Reported depictions
    🎨 Painting of Penelope by Zeuxis (LIMC Penelope 1)
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Mantineia (Arcadia)
    Commentary
    Didymos says that Penelope was called Arnacia or Amarice when she was young. See Eustathios ad Od. 1422.5-9.
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