Explanation:in Book 2: Penelope devoted herself to the shroud for three full years, promising she would choose a husband when she finished. By day, the queen, a renowned weaver, worked at a great loom in the royal halls. At night, she secretly unraveled what she had done, deceiving the young suitors. The ruse failed only when Penelope was betrayed by a disloyal maidservant.
From cliffnotes https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/the-odyssey/critical-essays/major-symbols-in-the-odyssey
“Still others were transposed into stories in a completely different land and culture such as Ran (1985), a Japanese tale of samurai based mostly on King Lear.” ( Paragraph 8)
