My name is Penelope, Wife of Odysseus, Mother of Telemachus and Acusilaus, and Queen of Ithaca. I ruled over Ithaca for 20 years in my husband’s absence, he was lost at sea for 2 decades, fighting a war meant to last a few months. Instead he was gone for years, and everyone believed he was dead, so over a hundred suitors came into my home and ate my food and touched my maids, on top of that the plotted to kill my son, Telemachus. He and my maids protected me. Until Odysseus came home.