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Penelope (disambiguation)

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Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's epic poem Odyssey.

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Penelope may also refer to:

As a name

  • Penelope (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
  • Julia Penelope (1941–2013), American linguist, author and philosopher

    • Places

  • Penelope, Texas, a town in the United States
  • Penelope Point, Victoria Land, Antarctica
  • 201 Penelope, an asteroid
  • Penelope (crater), a crater on Saturn's moon Tethys

    • Plays

  • La Penelope, a play by Giambattista della Porta circa 1580
  • Penelope (Somerset Maugham play), a play by W. Somerset Maugham 1912
  • Penelope (Enda Walsh play), a 2010 tragicomedy written by Enda Walsh

    • Films

  • Penelope (1966 film), a film starring Natalie Wood
  • Penelope (2006 film), a film starring Christina Ricci

    • Classical

  • Penelope, German-language opera by Rolf Liebermann
  • Pénélope, an opera by Gabriel Fauré, first performed in 1913
  • Pénélope (Piccinni), an opera by Niccolò Piccinni, first performed in 1785

    • Bands

  • The Penelopes, an indie pop/electronic band from Paris

    • Songs

  • "Penelope" (Pinback song)
  • "Penelope", a song by Great Big Sea from the album Sea of No Cares
  • "Penélope", a song by Joan Manuel Serrat
  • "Pénélope", a song by George Brassens
  • "Penelope", a song cycle by Sarah Kirkland Snider

    • Ships

  • HMS Penelope, various Royal Navy ships
  • Hired armed cutter Penelope, a cutter in Royal Navy service from 1794 to 1799
  • French frigate Pénélope (1806)
  • SS Penelope, a number of steamships with this name

    • Other uses

  • Penelope (genus), a bird genus in the Cracidae family
  • Penelope (e-mail client), e-mail software now named Eudora OSE
  • Penelope (horse) (1798–1824), thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
  • Prix Penelope, a thoroughbred horse race in France
  • Penelope High School, Penelope, Texas, United States
  • "Penelope", the given name for Molly Bloom's Soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses

    • References

    Penelope (disambiguation) Wikipedia
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