Penelope

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.17 Penelope

  The faithful wife of Ulysses, one of the two women who 'labored over the one man.'

• The Odes §3.10 Penelope

  No Tuscan father bore Lyce 'a Penelope, hard upon her suitors.'

• The Epistles §1.2 Penelope's

  The faithful wife of Ulysses; Tiresias cynically suggests her virtue lasted only because the suitors were stingy, and that profit could corrupt her.

• The Satires §2.5 hand Penelope over

  The famously faithful wife of Ulysses; Tiresias cynically reasons her chastity held only because the suitors were stingy, and could be bought with gain.