. PENEUS Peneleos (UrjviAews), son of Hippalcmus and Asterope, and one of the Argonauts. He wasthe father of Opheltes, and is also mentionedamong the suitors of Helen. (Apollod. i. 9, 16 ;Paus. ix. 5, 8.) He was one of the leaders ofthe Boeotians in the war against Troy, where heslew Ilioneus and Lycon, and was wounded byPolydamas. (II. ii. 494, xix. 487.) He is saidto have been slain by Eurypylus, the son ofTelephus. Penelope (UriveXSirri, Tl(ve\6irri, TIr)veA6ireia.),daughter of Icarius and Periboea of Sparta,married Odysseus, king
. PENEUS Peneleos (UrjviAews), son of Hippalcmus and Asterope, and one of the Argonauts. He wasthe father of Opheltes, and is also mentionedamong the suitors of Helen. (Apollod. i. 9, 16 ;Paus. ix. 5, 8.) He was one of the leaders ofthe Boeotians in the war against Troy, where heslew Ilioneus and Lycon, and was wounded byPolydamas. (II. ii. 494, xix. 487.) He is saidto have been slain by Eurypylus, the son ofTelephus. Penelope (UriveXSirri, Tl(ve\6irri, TIr)veA6ireia.),daughter of Icarius and Periboea of Sparta,married Odysseus, king of Ithaca. [Respectingher marriage, see Icabius, No. 2.] By Odysseusshe had an only child, Telemachus, who was aninfant when her husband sailed against the long absence of her husband shewas beleaguered by numerous and importunatesuitors, whom she deceived by declaring thatshe must finish a large robe which she wasmaking for Laertes, her father-in-law, beforeshe could make up her mind. During the day-time she accordingly worked at the robe, and. Penelope. (British Museum.) in the night she undid the work of the this means she succeeded in putting off thesuitors. But at length her stratagem wasbetrayed by her servants; and when, in conse-quence, the faithful Penelope was pressed moreand more by the impatient suitors, Odysseus atlength arrived in Ithaca, after an absence oftwenty years. [For details see Odysseus.]While the Odyssey describes Penelope as thetype of a faithful wife, some later writers repre-sent her as the reverse, and relate that byHermes or by the suitors she became themother of Pan (Lycophr. 772; Schol. adHdt. ii. 145 ; Cic. iii. 22, 55). They addthat Odysseus on his return repudiated her,whereupon she went to Sparta, and thence toMantinea, where her tomb was shown in after-times (Paus. viii. 12, 3). According to anothertradition, she married Telegonus, after he hadkilled his father (Hyg. Fab. 127). Peneus (nrjeeids). 1. (Salambria or Sal
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