Penelope

Series "Great beauties". She fled with Odysseus from her native Sparta, having married contrary to her father's prohibition, - and paid for a short woman's happiness with twenty years of separation. Twenty years of waiting and prayers, twenty years of loneliness and cold nights ... Even when the heroes of the Trojan War returned from foreign lands long ago, when all conceivable dates had passed, and no one hoped that Odysseus was alive, Penelope continued to believe and wait ... While he was besieging Troy and wandered around the Oycumene - she held a siege against a crowd of suitors, raised her son and actually ruled Ithaca, challenging human laws, and ruthless fate, and the harsh Chronos - after all, she was already under forty (in the Ancient World it is almost old age!) All Hellas talked about her "eternal youth", all the women wondered what secret ointments and rubbing kept her unfading beauty - but there was no secret: she just wanted Odysseus to have something to return for. She knew: her image will become his guiding star, her loyalty keeps him in all dangers and hardships, her love, like an unquenchable beacon, will show him the way home ...
Illustrations for the books of Natalia Pavlishcheva.