A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 496
which Pelopsand his descendants ruled, Pelopea moenia. Mycena? is called Pel-opeiades Mt/cence by Ovid. Penelope. Daughter of Icarius and Periboea of Sparta. Wifeof Ulysses king ofIthaca. Her fatherhad promised togive her to the con-queror in a foot-race ; but whenUlysses won it, Ica-rius tried to… … Penelope. (British Museum.) 478 ANCIENT MYTHS Troy. During his absence she was besieged by suitors, but shedeceived them by declaring that 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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