Telegonus

Family: Egyptian · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.1

Life events

• Circe bore Agrius, Latinus, and Telegonus to Odysseus.(Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021)
  • With: Circe Odysseus Agrius Latinus
  • “And Circe the daughter of Helius, Hyperion’s son, loved steadfast Odysseus and bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
• Telegonus accidentally wounded Odysseus with a barbed spear, causing Odysseus’s death.(Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 island of Ithaca)
  • With: Odysseus
  • “when Ulysses defended them, Telegonus wounded him with the spear he had in his hands, which was barbed with the spine of a sting-ray, and Ulysses died of the wound.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

• married with Io “having found Epaphus she came to Egypt and was married to Telegonus, who then reigned over the Egyptians.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• parent: Proteus “Polygonus and Telegonus, sons of Proteus, son of Poseidon”

Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021

• parent: Circe “also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
• parent: Odysseus “also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
• siblings with Agrius “bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
• siblings with Latinus “bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”

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