Such is the story of Penelope in Homer. Later writers add other particulars about her. She was won by Odysseus in a race proposed by Icarius to his daughter’s suitors. When Icarius would fiιin that Odysseus should bide with him in Sparta, or at least leave him his daughter, and Odysseus let Penelope choose whether she would go with him to Ithaca or stay with her father in Sparta, she silently drew her veil over her face. Her father understood her and let her go (Pausan., iii. 12, 20). Some said that she bore a son, Ptoliporthes, to Odysseus after his return from Troy. Others (marring Homer’s picture of her as a true and loving wife) said that in her husband’s absence she bore Pan to Hermes or the suitors. Another story was that on his return Odysseus repu<liated her as unfaithful, that she went to Sparta and thence to Mantinea, where she died and where her tomb was shown (Pausan., viii. 12). According to others, after the death of Odysseus she married Telegonus (son of Odysseus and Circe) in Aeaea, or in the Islands of the Blest. The name is connected with πηvos, πhvη, “woof,” and hence means “weaver.” The Homeric form is Penelopeia.