Penelope

First appears: The Returns

After Telegonus learns his mistake, he transports Odysseus’s body, Penelope, and Telemachus to his mother’s island, where Circe makes them immortal. Telegonus then marries Penelope; the account also says that Penelope had Telemachus and Acusilaus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Telegonus married Penelope.(The Returns)
  • With: Telegonus
  • “while Telegonus the son of Circe correspondingly married Penelope.”
• Telegonus transports Odysseus’s body, Penelope, and Telemachus to his mother’s island.(The Telegony)
  • With: Telegonus Odysseus Telemachus
  • “Telegonus, on learning his mistake, transports his father’s body with Penelope and Telemachus to his mother’s island”
• Circe makes Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and Telegonus immortal.(The Telegony)
  • With: Circe Odysseus Telemachus Telegonus
  • “where Circe makes them immortal”
• Telegonus marries Penelope.(The Telegony)
  • With: Telegonus
  • “and Telegonus marries Penelope”

The Returns

• married with Telegonus “The Colophonian author of the Returns says that Telemachus afterwards married Circe, while Telegonus the son of Circe correspondingly married Penelope.”

The Telegony

• married with Telegonus “and Telegonus marries Penelope”
• child: Telemachus “and by Penelope Telemachus and Acusilaus.”
• child: Acusilaus “and by Penelope Telemachus and Acusilaus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.