Laertes

Also known as: Laërtes · Family: Greeks · Role: ancestor of Odysseus · First appears: Sophocles, Aias — Scene 7

Sophocles, Aias — Scene 2

• child: Odysseus “Flouting the generals and Laërtes' son”

Sophocles, Aias — Scene 7

• younger kin: Odysseus (Odysseus is identified as a descendant of Laertes.) “For thee, revered Laërtes' lineal seed,”

Sophocles, Philoctetes — Scene 2

• child: Odysseus “'Seed of Achilles, thou may'st freely take All else thy father owned, but for those arms, Another wields them now, Laërtes' son.' Tears rushed into mine eyes, and in hot wrath I straightway rose, and bitterly outspake: 'O miscreant! What? And have ye dared to give Mine arms to some man else, unknown to me?' Then said Odysseus, for he chanced to be near,”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.