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This character receives a comforting vision of Iphthime and explains that fatuous and meaningful dreams come through ivory and horn gates, respectively. This figure's father married the nymph Periboea and made winning a footrace a precondition for marrying her. Many late myths were invented to explain the fact that she shares a name with the nymph from Mount Cyllene who gave birth to Pan. This daughter of (*) Icarius determines a stranger's identity by setting out a challenge to shoot an arrow through twelve axe-shaft rings and by asking a trick question involving her bed, which was built into an olive tree. Each night, she unraveled part of a shroud she was weaving for her father-in-law Laertes as part of a ruse intended to delay the many suitors who had come to Ithaca seeking her. For 10 points, name this mother of Telemachus, the faithful wife of Odysseus.
This character receives a comforting vision of Iphthime and explains that fatuous and meaningful dreams come through ivory and horn gates, respectively.
Penelope