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Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus ( Ulysses in Roman mythology ), 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 108 odious suitors ( led by Antinous and including Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus and Peisandros ).