{"id":41112,"count":1,"description":"In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope (\u00a0\/p\u0259\u02c8n\u025bl\u0259pi\u02d0\/ p\u0259-nel-\u0259-pee; Greek: \u03a0\u03b7\u03bd\u03b5\u03bb\u03cc\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1, P\u0113nel\u00f3peia, or \u03a0\u03b7\u03bd\u03b5\u03bb\u03cc\u03c0\u03b7, P\u0113nel\u00f3p\u0113) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually reunited with him.\nHer name has traditionally been associated with marital faithfulness, and so it was with the Greeks and Romans, but some recent feminist readings offer a more ambiguous interpretation.\nThe origin of her name is believed by some like Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to p\u0113nelops (\u03c0\u03b7\u03bd\u03ad\u03bb\u03bf\u03c8) or *p\u0113nel\u014dps (*\u03c0\u03b7\u03bd\u03ad\u03bb\u03c9\u03c8), glossed by Hesychius as \"some kind of bird\" (today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian Wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope), where -el\u014dps (-\u03ad\u03bb\u03c9\u03c8) is a common pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals; however, the semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear. P\u0113nelop\u0113 (\u03a0\u03b7\u03bd\u03b5\u03bb\u03cc\u03c0\u03b7) is usually understood to combine the Greek word p\u0113n\u0113 (\u03c0\u03ae\u03bd\u03b7), \"weft\", and \u014dps (\u1f64\u03c8), \"face\", which is considered...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/penelope\/","name":"Penelope","slug":"penelope","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=41112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}