Penelope waits twenty years for the final return of her husband, during which she devises various strategies to delay marrying one of the 108 suitors.On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. 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, until Melantho, one of twelve unfaithful serving women, discovers her chicanery and reveals it to the suitors.
Clytemnestra
In ancient Greek legend, she was the wife of Agamemnon, ruler of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos.
Laertes
He's the father of Odysseus.
Electra
She was the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra.
Electra complex
It is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.
Polyphemus
He is the giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Odyssey. His name means "abounding in songs and legends". Polyphemus appears as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of Homer's Odyssey.
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