The Odyssey
Based on the epic simile, the reader should envision Penelope as a queen who is?
"My lady, never a man in the wide world
should have a fault to find with you. Your name
has gone out under heaven like the sweet
honor of some god-fearing king, who rules
in equity over the strong: his black lands bear
both wheat and barley, fruit trees laden bright,
new lambs at lambing time- and the deep sea
gives great hauls of fish by his good strategy,
his folk fare well."