Emphasis Preaching Journal

In Homer's epic The Odyssey, the gods punished the war hero Odysseus by sending him on a fantastic voyage to wild and dangerous places, instead of allowing him to return safely to his home on Ithaca. Left alone at home, his wife Penelope became the object of many suitors, who believed and would have had her believe that her husband had perished. Penelope refused all the attention she was paid, finding herself unable to accept that the great Odysseus could have died after surviving the Trojan war.