My name is Penelope, former known as daughter of Icarius. Of course I am also known as wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus. Lately I have been called the “waiting queen” although, to be honest most people visiting Ithaca have more perverse epithets in mind…and by people, I mean the suitors who have been gathering in my court the way ants gather to a picnic. I will tell you one thing, being a queen in a king’s world is not an easy task. You have to be cunning, you have to convince everyone that you are naive and all you do is weave…but then again so do spiders.