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  2. Telemachus - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Telemachus (/ t ə ˈ l ɛ m ə k ə s / tə-LEM-ə-kəs; Ancient Greek: Τηλέμαχος, romanized: Tēlemakhos, lit. 'far-fighter') is the son of Odysseus and Penelope, who are central characters in Homer's Odyssey. When Telemachus reached manhood, he visited Pylos and Sparta in search of his wandering

  3. Penelope - Wikipedia

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    Penelope. Drawing after Attic pottery figure. Penelope encounters the returned Odysseus posing as a beggar. From a mural in the Macellum of Pompeii. Penelope (/ p ə ˈ n ɛ l ə p i / [1] pə-NEL-ə-pee; Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) [2] is a character in Homer's Odyssey.

  4. Suitors of Penelope - Wikipedia

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    Killed by Telemachus. Later recounts his death to Agamemnon and Achilles while in the underworld and blames Penelope for it. [6] Amphinomus. Shows courtesy towards the disguised Odysseus, who warns him against staying; [7] the warning goes unheeded, though, and he is killed along with the other suitors, though by Telemachus and not Odysseus.

  5. Theoclymenus - Wikipedia

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    Slaughter of the suitors of Penelope.Side A from a red-figure bell-krater, ca. 330 BC. In the Odyssey, he escaped from Argos after killing one of his relatives.He fled to Pylos and sought refuge aboard the ship of Telemachus, who had come to inquire about the fate of his father, Odysseus.

  6. Antinous of Ithaca - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from Gustav Schwab of Odysseus killing the suitors Ulysses' revenge on Penelope's suitors (Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1814). In the Epic Cycle, Antinous (also Antinoüs; Latin: Antinous) or Antinoös (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος, romanized: Antínoös), was the Ithacan son of Eupeithes, best known for his role in Homer's Odyssey.

  7. Telegonus (son of Odysseus) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Telegonus (/ t ə ˈ l ɛ ɡ ə n ə s /; Ancient Greek: Τηλέγονος means "born afar") was the youngest son of Circe and Odysseus [1] and thus, brother to Agrius and Latinus [2] or Nausithous and Nausinous, [3] and Cassiphone. [4] In some accounts, he was called the son of the nymph Calypso and Odysseus instead. [5]

  8. What Greek epics taught me about the special relationship ...

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  9. Eumaeus - Wikipedia

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    In Eumaeus's hut is Odysseus in disguise. Eumaeus greets Telemachus as a father, expressing his deep worry while Telemachus was gone and his relief now that is safely back. Homer even uses a simile to reiterate the father–son relationship between Telemachus and Eumaeus. He says, And as a loving father embraces his own son