This illustrartion dates to the early 1900s. It shows Penelope awaiting Ulysses (also spelled Odysseus). It shows Ulysses’ beautiful and faithful wife Penelope, upon her palace wall, where she gazed day after day, sadly and with straining eyes, across the sea for his returning sail. The patient Penelope has become typical of all women who watch and wait for the absent.

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Size: 5290px × 3494px
Photo credit: © Ivy Close Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: ancient, couple, epic, greece, greek, heroes, heroine, homer, iliad, ithaca, legend, myth, mythology, odysseus, odyssey, penelope, poem, queen, suitors, telemachus, trojan, ulysses, waits, war