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Example Sentences: 1.Mr. Jones made a long speech at the meeting. Everyone thought it was a Penelope's web. 2. They are always fighting and negotiating and fighting. A perfect Penelope's web.

Penelope is known today probably mostly for her loyalty as depicted in Homer's Odyssey. She was the daughter of Icarius and Polycaste. According to one story, Icarius promised his beautiful daughter to the man who could beat him in a footrace. Odysseus defeated Icarius and took Penelope as his bride. Icarius wanted the young couple to stay by him, but Odysseus insisted on leaving. Icarius asked Penelope what she wanted, and, Robert Bell states, "she did not answer but only

dropped her veil over her face; this signified that she would follow her husband“. Penelope and Odysseus journeyed to Ithaca and Penelope bore Odysseus a son. Odysseus was happily married at first but later he was forced to join the Trojan War for ten years. When the war was over for another ten years, there was still no sign of Odysseus. So, many suitors came to seek Penelope's hand in marriage.

As time went on and the chance that Odysseus would return became smaller, the suitors got more and more badly behaved and began to take over control of the palace. In order to avoid choosing a husband, Penelope came up with a plan. She announced that she was weaving a shroud for Laertes, her father-in-law. She said that, once she had finished, she would choose a husband from among the many suitors.

Penelope wove during the day and unloosened the weaving at night, therefore buying time. Odysseus returned after a long journey, and killed all of the suitors. Penelope remained faithful to her husband, and remained civil to the unwanted suitors. Even today she is often thought of as a symbol of virtue.

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