Penelope's Story - The Shroud Weaver's Tale (Paperback)

Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, tells her story. She is intimately involved in the Greek side of the Trojan War. She is cousin to Helen. She helped Menelaus win Helen, and saw Paris steal Helen for Troy. She saw Clytemnestra thwarted by Agamemnon, and heard her plan the bloody revenge. She watched as Achilles fought with Agamemnon, setting up the fight that threatened to tear the Greeks apart. She had to win Odysseus, the wisest of the Greeks, and steer through the mazes and difficulties of Odysseusa life, land, and rule. She was strong, tricky, and circumspect enough to hold on to Ithaka for herself and her children. On her own for 20 years, she had to prevail against most odds to keep the country that was, at first, not her own. She tricked the suitors, winning time, until she could fight, with Odysseus, for her land. Her story has intrigue, love, trickery, death, pirates, wars, wounds, God-like interference, adventure, and true-hearted stories.