Part 1 In his third and final story featuring Odysseus, Hermes relates what happens when Odysseus comes home to his wife, Penelope. Athena, goddess of wisdom, has been slow to help Odysseus on his ...

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting in the Trojan War, then outsmarting sirens, sea monsters ...