However, because she is half-Naiad, she is saved by a group of ducks who bring her back to shore. Neither parent is overly affectionate with Penelope in fact, King Icarius tries to have Penelope killed when she is very young by throwing her into the ocean. She begins her story with her childhood, explaining that she is the daughter of King Icarius of Sparta and a Naiad. In the Penelopiad, Penelope tells her version of events through the voice of a spirit in the Underworld.
Through that time, however, Penelope remains faithful to Odysseus and patiently waits for his return. It is many, many years before he is able to return home. However, many misadventures derail his return home, in part because the god of the ocean, Poseidon, is angry with him. In the Odyssey, Odysseus has just left the Trojan war and sets out for Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, are waiting for him. In the Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood retells the story of Homer's Odyssey through Penelope's point of view.
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