High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Homer's Odyssey, Penelóp? (??????????/????????) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually rejoined with him. Her name has traditionally been associated with faithfulness, and so it was with the Greeks and Romans, but some recent feminist readings offer a more ambiguous interpretation.The origin of her name is believed by some like Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to the Hesychius' gloss ???????/ ??????? "some kind of bird" (arbitrarily identified today with the Eurasian Wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope), where -???? is a common pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals, however the semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear.