e removes the stitching each night. For several years, the crafty Penelope successfully deceives her suitors before her secret is made known. This action illustrates how women appeal to their intellects in order to achieve a solution.
             Penelope appeals to her clever wit a second time when she unknowingly encounters her husband Odysseus under the guise of a bedraggled beggar. When Penelope begins to suspect that he is indeed her Odysseus, she cleverly puts him to a test to confirm his identity. When the couple was first married, Odysseus built their bedroom around an olive tree, which he used as one of the four bedposts. Penelope makes a reference to relocating the bed, and Odysseus immediately corrects her statement, reminding his wife that their bed is permanently stationed in the bedroom. " 'Come, Eurycleia, move the great bed outside the bedroom that he himself built'...This was her way of putting her husband to the test." Thus, through her supreme intellect, Penelope is able to unmistakably identify her husband.
             It is Penelope's strength and wit that enables her to hold the family together even with such odds working against them. In the end, she is the one who maintains the family's structure, and keeps peace in the home while Odysseus is at war.
             In a fashion similar to Homer, Aeschylus depicts a strong image of women through his character, Clytaemestra. When Clytaemestra's is quarreling with her husband, Agamemnon, he reproaches her with, "Surely this lust for conflict is not womanlike?" Clytaemestra refuses to yield to her husband, even it is not womanly of her to do so.
             Aeschylus employs the repetitive motif of entanglement throughout his Oresteia; this idea of becoming ensnared is manifested in numerous instances, none more obvious than when Clytaemestra entangles Agamemnon in a robe to strike him down. "As fishermen cast their huge circling nets, I spread deadly a...