Penelope
Πηνελόπη
Odysseus's wife, who bought time by unraveling each night what she wove by day.
To the 108 suitors who swarmed in claiming her husband was dead, she promised to remarry once she finished weaving her father-in-law's shroud.
Then for three years she unraveled by night what she had woven by day, holding out until a maid betrayed the secret.
Even when her husband returned, she did not believe him at once — she tested him with the secret of their bed, known only to the two of them. In cunning, she is Odysseus's equal.
SourcesHomer, Odyssey