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Antinous and Penelope | od027flax: Antinous said: "And Penelope devised in her heart this guileful thing also: she set up in her halls a great web, and fell to weaving—fine of thread was the web and very wide; and straightway she spoke among us: 'Young men, my wooers, since goodly Odysseus is dead, be patient, though eager for my marriage, until I finish this robe, a shroud for the lord Laertes, against the time when the fell fate of grievous death shall strike him down; lest any of the Achaean women in the land should be wroth with me, if he, who had won great possessions, were to lie without a shroud.' So she spoke, and our proud hearts consented. Then day by day she would weave at the great web, but by night would unravel it." (Hom.Od.2.94). John Flaxman (1755 – 1826).

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  od027flax.jpg - od027flax: Antinous said: "And Penelope devised in her heart this guileful thing also: she set up in her halls a great web, and fell to weaving—fine of thread was the web and very wide; and straightway she spoke among us: 'Young men, my wooers, since goodly Odysseus is dead, be patient, though eager for my marriage, until I finish this robe, a shroud for the lord Laertes, against the time when the fell fate of grievous death shall strike him down; lest any of the Achaean women in the land should be wroth with me, if he, who had won great possessions, were to lie without a shroud.' So she spoke, and our proud hearts consented. Then day by day she would weave at the great web, but by night would unravel it." (Hom.Od.2.94). John Flaxman (1755 – 1826).  
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