Penelope is a legendary mythological Greek Queen of Ithaca and Princess of Sparta or Acarnania, who plays a prominent character in Homer's Odyssey. She is the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Naiad Periboea and mother to Ithacan prince Telemachus. Other myths claim that she later bore Poliporthes, Arcesilaus, Oenotrian King Italus, Princess Mamilia, and the God Pan.