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Often appears with: the fear of death · prayer and worship · penelope's prayers to artemis · mourning and grief · female mourning and distress · dreams as omens · divine signs
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · lament (1) · reverence (1)
Penelope awakens, prays to Artemis to die or be taken away, explains her dreams as evil and recalls a dream of Odysseus, and Dawn comes as Odysseus prays after hearing her weeping.
So she spake and poured slumber upon his eyelids, but for her part the fair goddess went back to Olympus. While sleep laid hold of him loosening the cares of his soul, sleep that loosens the limbs of men, his good wife awoke and wept as she sat on her soft bed. But when she had taken her fill of weeping, to Artemis first the fair lady made her prayer: “Artemis, lady and goddess, daughter of Zeus, would that even no…