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     Not only is trickery heroic in The Odyssey, but Penelope is as much a trickster as Odysseus. Just as Athene, daughter of Zeus,uses trickery, so does Penelope. Penelope deceives the suitors into believing that she will marry one of them after she weaves a shroud for her father-in-law Laertes. On Odysseusreturn, Penelope tells him: "in the daytime [she] would weave at my great loom, but in the night [she] would have torches set by, and undo it" (Odyssey, p. 286). Penelope also usedtrickery to get Odyssuesto act expedientlyto kill the suitors. Still disguised as a beggar,she tells Odysseus that she "cannot escape from this marriage" with one of the suitors, urging Odysseus to act soon (Odyssey, p. 286). And finally, Penelope tricks and even outwits her husband Odysseus again when she gets him to reveal and acknowledge his personal identity. She tells him she has moved their bed, which Odysseus built into an olive tree,in his absence. Which he knows is impossible. Odysseus reveals himself when he says: "I myself, no other man, made it" (Odyssey, p. XX). Itsclear that Penelope gets the upper hand, triumphing over the great hero of trickery, Odysseus himself. When hereads The Odyssey, the reader can only conclude that Penelope is the true heroinof The Odyssey.