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Often appears with: twelve axes challenge · suitor behavior · stringing a bow · marriage and betrothal · justice as a virtue · household management and servants · household governance
Usually: speech or oration (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1)
Penelope publicly challenges the suitors: anyone who strings Ulysses’s bow and shoots through twelve axes may marry her, while Antinous and Telemachus oversee the orderly setup and trials.
stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a maid on either side of her. Then she said: “Listen to me you suitors, who persist in abusing the hospitality of this house because its owner has been long absent, and without other pretext than that you want to marry me; this, then, being the prize that you are contending for, I will bring out the mighty…