Penelope deceived the suitors for three years by weaving and unweaving a shroud nightly
Evidence
So by day she’d weave at her great and growing web — by night, by the light of torches set beside her, she would unravel all she’d done. Three whole years she deceived us blind, seduced us with this scheme … … So long as she persists in tormenting us, quick to exploit the gifts Athena gave her — a skilled hand for elegant work, a fine mind 130 and subtle wiles too —we’ve never heard the like, not even in old stories sung of all Achaea’s well-coifed queens who graced the years gone by: 133 Mycenae crowned with garlands, Tyro and Alcmena … — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 558
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the Trojan War’s ten-year deception paradigm and Penelope’s famous ruse as a staple of wit-over-brute-force storytelling. — connects to: Penelope’s nightly unweaving trick deceived the suitors for three years — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 4652