Odysseus is described as a wise man throughout both The Iliad and The Odyssey, the same applies to his wife, Penelope. With her husband lost on his journey, Penelope reveals her cleverness as she leads on the endless string of suitors arriving at her door. Using the suitors’ “pride and passion” to wed to her advantage, she promises to marry “until [she] can finish off” her web (2. 107, 115). Later on, she deceives the hopeful suitors and “unravels all she’d done” (2. 117). Penelope proves she is cunning, using her wits to keep the suitors at bay until her husband
