All entities

Character · Individual

vision sent by Minerva to Penelope

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
vision sent by Minerva to Penelope
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
This speaking vision is distinct from the real Iphthime whose likeness it bears.

Aliases

1

Iphthime

Disguise · Disguised

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

1
Penelope’s room1 observation
·Direct

Minerva’s vision entered Penelope’s room and hovered over her.

See evidence text
Then Minerva bethought her of another matter, and made a vision in the likeness of Penelope’s sister Iphthime daughter of Icarius who had married Eumelus and lived in Pherae. She told the vision to go to the house of Ulysses, and to make Penelope leave off crying, so it came into her room by the hole through which the thong went for pulling the door to, and hovered over her head saying,

Claims

4
·Direct

Minerva’s vision enters through the door’s thong-hole and hovers over Penelope’s head.

See evidence text
it came into her room by the hole through which the thong went for pulling the door to, and hovered over her head
·Reported

The vision assures Penelope that her son will return because he has done the gods no wrong.

See evidence text
Your son has done them no wrong, so he will yet come back to you
·Uncertain

The vision refuses to say whether Ulysses is alive or dead.

See evidence text
I shall not tell you for certain whether he is alive or dead
·Direct

The vision exits through the door’s thong-hole and dissipates into thin air.

See evidence text
it vanished through the thong-hole of the door and was dissipated into thin air

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

1
·Disguised
made a vision in the likeness of Penelope’s sister Iphthime

Passage preview

Book 4 · Passage 74

Then Minerva bethought her of another matter, and made a vision in the likeness of Penelope’s sister Iphthime daughter of Icarius who had married Eumelus and lived in Pherae. She told the vision to go to the house of Ulysses, and to make Penelope leave off crying, so it came into her room by the hole through which the thong went for pulling the door to, and hovered over her head saying,