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Circe married Telemachus, and Telegonus married Penelope [34] by the advice of Athena. [35] According to an alternative version depicted in Lycophron's 3rd-century BC poem Alexandra (and John Tzetzes' scholia on it), Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.
Telemachus married Telegonus' mother, the enchantress Circe, while Telegonus took to wife Odysseus' widow Penelope. [6] By Penelope, he was the father of Italus who, according to some accounts, gave his name to Italy. [7] What appears to be later tradition holds that Odysseus would also be resurrected by Circe after he was killed by Telegonus. [8]
According to Aristotle and Dictys of Crete, Telemachus married Nausicaa, King Alcinous's daughter, and fathered a son named Perseptolis or Ptoliporthus. [11] Eustathius says that the mother was Polycaste, the daughter of Nestor. [12] Others relate that he became the father of Latinus by Circe (Hygin. Fab. 127; comp. Telegonus).
Odysseus's ship is the only one to escape. He sails on and visits the witch-goddess Circe. She turns half of his men into swine after feeding them cheese and wine. Hermes warns Odysseus about Circe and gives him a drug called moly, which resists Circe's magic. Circe, being attracted to Odysseus's resistance, falls in love with him and releases ...
According to a later Hellenistic tradition, Circe brought Odysseus back to life after his death, and he arranged for Telemachus to marry his half-sister Cassiphone, Odysseus and Circe's daughter. But after a quarrell with Circe, Telemachus slew his mother-in-law, and in rage Cassiphone killed him, avenging thus the murder of her mother. [16]
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Circe is a 2018 mythic fantasy novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age , it is an adaptation of various Greek myths , most notably the Odyssey , as told from the perspective of the witch Circe .
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