Penelope

Penelope is a charachter of the Odyssey, one of the two great epic poems (the other being the Iliad) of ancient Greek literature. Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca Odysseus (also known as Ulysses), who waits twenty years for the return of his husband. In the poem she has hard times in refusing marriage proposal from several princes, who are finally slaughtered by Ulysses (helped by their son Telemachus?) as he gets home.