Love

Love that withstands the test of time

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Odysseus was forced to leave his beloved wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachos, to fight in the Trojan War. After the war ended, ten years later, there was no sign of Odysseus. No one knew whether he was dead or alive. 

Ten more years have gone by. Telemachos is  a young man, and Penelope keeps waiting patiently for the man she loves. He is being kept prisoner by a witch named Calypso who wants him as her husband, but all Odysseus can think of is his wife and how much he longs to see her again.

In the meantime, Penelope is having a hard time. Over a hundred men have invaded her house, eating up Odysseus's fortune, and insisting that she should marry one of them. Fortunately, Penelope is not only beautiful and faithful, she is also very smart. She tells the suitors that she will marry one of them after she finishes weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law. They see her working on it every day, but what they don't know is that at night she secretly unravels her work.

I am impressed by Penelope's faithfulness after so many years without her husband and I am deeply touched by the everlasting love between Penelope and Odysseus.