Penelope of ithaca

Did some Epic designs for Telemachus and Penelope, but since they don't have actors yet (I heard that Penelope has, but I couldn't find her anywhere??), these designs will probably change in the futu…

It should not surprise us that there is now a psychological expression called “The Penelope Complex” to portray the existential state of waiting as described by Homer in his Odyssey. A state that many of us are familiar with and that involves ghosts, demons and almost-vanished images of what we could once see. This diagnosis, which is somewhat forced perhaps to counter the famous ‘Ulysses complex,’ omits the really mind bending part that a long wait can imply.

odysseus and penelope!

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Penelope and her Suitors - John WIlliam Waterhouse

ODYSSEUS bids farewell to PENELOPE, before leaving for Troy. (Eric Shanower/Trojan War/Homer's Odyssey/user: Aethon)

Penelope in greek mythology is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and naiad Periboea. Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the attention of more than a hundred suitors during his absence. In one source, Penelope's original name was Arnacia or Arnaea. She only has one son with Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War. She waits twenty…