This essay will read Tino Villanueva’s Penelope from his work So Spoke Penelope against her classical archetype, Homer’s “wise Penelope” (“περίφρων Πηνελόπεια”), and will consider points of convergence and divergence between the Homeric character and Villanueva’s Penelopean text. My intent is to illustrate how Villanueva reimagines the mythic figure and how he challenges and revises the various aspects of Penelope’s representation in The Odyssey, such as her loyalty to Odysseus; her patience; her grief and desolate loneliness; her kleos (renown, fame); her desire; her dream thoughts and waking visions; her relation to the goddess Athena; her attitude toward suitors; her device of the web; and her reunion with Odysseus. By working out the silences, hints, potentialities, ironies, and contradictions that inform the portrayal of the archetypal figure, Villanueva’s poems add new threads to the ever-expanding great web of interpretation of Penelope’s place in the epic work and invite the reader to reflect anew on the particulars of her compelling story.