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The queen warmly welcomed Odysseus and urged him to stay, even offering him her kingdom. [2] Atlhough his wife Penelope was still alive and waiting for him in Ithaca, Odysseus nevertheless agreed to marry Callidice, and ruled over Thesprotia for a number of years during which Callidice bore him a son named Polypoetes. [3] [4]
Callidice, one of the Danaids. She married (and killed) Pandion, son of Aegyptus [2] Callidice, queen of Thesprotia and wife of Odysseus. She and Odysseus had a son Polypoetes. According to the Telegony, Odysseus was sent on another voyage by the gods after killing all of Penelope's suitors.
There, he weds the Thesprotian queen Callidice, who bears him a son, Polypoetes. [11] Odysseus fights for the Thesprotians in a war against the neighbouring Brygoi; the gods participate in the war, Ares routing Odysseus and the Thesprotians, countered by Athena, ever Odysseus' patron; Apollo intervenes between the battling gods. Later, after ...
He married the Thesprotian queen, Callidice, and had a son with her named Polypoetes. Odysseus led the Thesprotians in the war against the Brygoi (Brygi), but lost the battle because Ares was on the side of the Brygoi. Athena went to support Odysseus, by engaging the war god in another confrontation until Apollo separated them. When Callidice ...
When Callidice died, Odysseus returned home to Ithaca, leaving their son, Polypoetes, to rule Thesprotia. [50] Contradicting the reading of Tiresias's prophecy in The Odyssey that Odysseus will have a gentle death in old age after making it home, [ 46 ] [ 51 ] the Telogony claims that he met his death at the hands of Telegonus , his son with ...
Thesprotia is mentioned at the Epic Cycle as a place where Odysseus sailed and married the local queen Callidice of Thesprotia. [4] Thesprotia became part of the Epirote League before it was annexed by Rome where it became part of the Roman province of Epirus .
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.
A statue of Neptune in the city of Bristol.. Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea and the brother of Zeus, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter.Beckoned by the curse of Polyphemus, his one-eyed giant son, he attempts to make Odysseus' journey home much harder than it actually needs to be.