Penelope of Ithaca

strategic-delay and household-governance intelligence that treats waiting as active management rather than passivity.… · Homeric epic tradition, conventionally dated to the late 8th or early 7th century BCE

Penelope of Ithaca is represented within Homeric epic tradition, conventionally dated to the late 8th or early 7th century BCE and mythic Ithaca and the household economy of the Odyssey. Canon classification: fictional epic character in the Odyssey; later classical and modern retellings are separate.