A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 495
s which Pelopsand his descendants ruled, Pelopea moinia. Mycenae is called Pel-opeiwles Mycence by Ovid. Penelope. Daughter of Icarius and Periboea of Sparta. Wifeof Ulvsses king ofIthaca. Her fatherhad promised too-ive her to the con-queror in a foot-race ; but whenUlysses won it, Ica-rius tried… … Penelope. (Brilish Museum.> 478 ANCIENT ^tYTHS Troy. During his absence she was besieged by suitors, but shedeceived them by declaring tliat she must finish a robe for herfather-in-law, Laertes, before she could listen to them. She workedupon this robe by day and unraveled it at night, and thus…
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