Setting out from Troy in Turkey, at the mouth of the Dardanelles, the Roths land, at last, in Ithaca, where Odysseus, after a good meal and a warm bloodbath (briskly administered to Penelope’s ...

SANTAMARIA: (As Eumeo) The queen Penelope and her son. FIENNES: (As Odysseus) No man at her side? SANTAMARIA: (As Eumeo) All year, they've been turning up for miles around, waiting for her to choose.

Penelope waited for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War ... but never finishing it so she could use it as an excuse to wait for her husband. This is how this works: an emblem of a virtue ...

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting in the Trojan War, then outsmarting sirens, sea monsters ...