Source-groundedThe Odyssey
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Actor

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Canonical name
Actor
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Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Actor is named only as the father of the single maidservant who guards Ulysses and Penelope’s room.

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Claims

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·Reported

Actor is identified as the father of the maidservant given to Penelope by her own father at marriage.

See evidence text
“the daughter of Actor, who was given me by my father on my marriage”

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·Remembered
“the daughter of Actor”

Passage preview

Book 23 · Passage 19

When she heard the sure proofs Ulysses now gave her, she fairly broke down. She flew weeping to his side, flung her arms about his neck, and kissed him. ‘Do not be angry with me Ulysses,’ she cried, ‘you, who are the wisest of mankind. We have suffered, both of us. Heaven has denied us the happiness of spending our youth, and of growing old, together; do not then be aggrieved or take it amiss that I did not embrace you thus as soon as I saw you. I have been shuddering all the time through fear that someone might come here and deceive me with a lying story; for there are many very wicked people going about. Jove’s daughter Helen would never have yielded herself to a man from a foreign country, if she had known that the sons of Achaeans would come after her and bring her back. Heaven put it in her heart to do wrong, and she gave no thought to that sin, which has been the source of all our sorrows. Now, however, that you have convinced me by showing that you know all about our bed (which no human being has ever seen but you and I and a single maidservant, the daughter of Actor, who was given me by my father on my marriage, and who keeps the doors of our room) hard of belief though I have been I can mis trust no longer.’