The Odyssey

Book II

How did Penelope use the shroud to trick the suitors?

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Penelope put off the suitors by saying she wouldn't marry until after she'd completed the death shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes. Over the course of three years, she wove the shroud continuously, only to unravel her work in the evening when no one was watching.

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The Odyssey