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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Laërtes was the son of Arcesius
Arcesius

In Greek mythology, Arcesius was the son of Cephalus, and king in Ithaca. Zeus made his line one of "only child": his only son was Laertes, whose only son was Odysseus, whose only son was Telemachus....
 and Chalcomedusa. He was the father of Odysseus
Odysseus

Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
 (who was thus called ?ae?t??d??) and Ctimene
Ctimene

Ctimene was the younger sister of Odysseus, the legendary Greeks king of Ithaca, and daughter of La?rtes and Anticlea, who raised her alongside the servant Eumaeus, who was treated almost as her equal....
 by his wife Anticlea
Anticlea

In Greek mythology, Anticlea, , was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea, and mother of Odysseus by Laertes . She is also the granddaughter of the trickster god Hermes ....
, daughter of the thief Autolycus
Autolycus

In Greek mythology, Autolycus was a son of Hermes and Chione . He was the husband of Neaera, or according to Homer of Amphithea. Autolycus fathered Anticlea and several sons of whom only Aesimus is named....
. Laërtes was an Argonaut
Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
 and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar
Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom...
. Laërtes's title was King of the Cephallenians
Acephali

Acephali is a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader.In particular, the term refers to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter III of Alexandria, List of Patriarchs of Alexandria, and remained "without king or bishop" until they were reconciled by Pope Mark I...
, which he presumably inherited from his father Arcesius and grandfather Cephalus
Cephalus

Cephalus is an Ancient Greek name, used both for historical persons and for characters in Greek mythology. The word cephalus is Greek for "head", perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding "head" of a great family that includes Odysseus....
. His realm included Ithaca
Ithaca

Ithaca or Ithaka is an island in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 118 km? and three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent Communities and Municipalities of Greece of the prefecture of Kefalonia and Ithaka Prefecture, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia....
 and surrounding islands, and perhaps even the neighboring part of the mainland of other Greek city-states.

Another account says that Laërtes was not Odysseus's true father; rather, it was Sisyphus
Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus , was a king punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and to repeat this throughout eternity....
, who had seduced Anticlea.

It was Laërtes who trained Odysseus in husbandry.






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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Laërtes was the son of Arcesius
Arcesius

In Greek mythology, Arcesius was the son of Cephalus, and king in Ithaca. Zeus made his line one of "only child": his only son was Laertes, whose only son was Odysseus, whose only son was Telemachus....
 and Chalcomedusa. He was the father of Odysseus
Odysseus

Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
 (who was thus called ?ae?t??d??) and Ctimene
Ctimene

Ctimene was the younger sister of Odysseus, the legendary Greeks king of Ithaca, and daughter of La?rtes and Anticlea, who raised her alongside the servant Eumaeus, who was treated almost as her equal....
 by his wife Anticlea
Anticlea

In Greek mythology, Anticlea, , was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea, and mother of Odysseus by Laertes . She is also the granddaughter of the trickster god Hermes ....
, daughter of the thief Autolycus
Autolycus

In Greek mythology, Autolycus was a son of Hermes and Chione . He was the husband of Neaera, or according to Homer of Amphithea. Autolycus fathered Anticlea and several sons of whom only Aesimus is named....
. Laërtes was an Argonaut
Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
 and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar
Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom...
. Laërtes's title was King of the Cephallenians
Acephali

Acephali is a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader.In particular, the term refers to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter III of Alexandria, List of Patriarchs of Alexandria, and remained "without king or bishop" until they were reconciled by Pope Mark I...
, which he presumably inherited from his father Arcesius and grandfather Cephalus
Cephalus

Cephalus is an Ancient Greek name, used both for historical persons and for characters in Greek mythology. The word cephalus is Greek for "head", perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding "head" of a great family that includes Odysseus....
. His realm included Ithaca
Ithaca

Ithaca or Ithaka is an island in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 118 km? and three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent Communities and Municipalities of Greece of the prefecture of Kefalonia and Ithaka Prefecture, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia....
 and surrounding islands, and perhaps even the neighboring part of the mainland of other Greek city-states.

Another account says that Laërtes was not Odysseus's true father; rather, it was Sisyphus
Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus , was a king punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and to repeat this throughout eternity....
, who had seduced Anticlea.

It was Laërtes who trained Odysseus in husbandry. After Odysseus and his son Telemachus
Telemachus

Telemachus is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey. The first four books in particular focus on Telemachus's journeys in search of news about his father; they are, therefore, traditionally accorded the collective title Telemachy....
 routed the suitors who had been courting Penelope
Penelope

In Homer's Odyssey, Penel?pe is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps Suitors of Penelope at bay in his long absence and so is eventually rejoined with him....
, Odysseus's wife, a number of the suitors' surviving relatives confronted them. Athena
Athena

In Greek mythology, Athena is the shrewd companion of Hero and the goddess of Hero endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to worship her....
 infused vigour into Laërtes, so he could help Odysseus by killing Eupeithes
Eupeithes

In Greek mythology, Eupeith?s was the father of Antinous son of Eupeithes, the leader of the suitors of Penelope. After his son's death at the hands of Odysseus, Eupeithes tried to revolt against his rule....
, father of Antinous
Antinous son of Eupeithes

In Greek mythology, Antinous, son of Eupeithes, was one of the two chief suitors of Penelope during the absence of her husband, Odysseus, at the Trojan war....
. In Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek language and Latin....
's translation
Translation

Translation is the hermeneutics of the Meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an Dynamic and formal equivalence text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language....
 of the Odyssey
Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Hellenic civilization epic poetrys attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer....
, Odysseus
Odysseus

Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
 refers to him as King Allwoes.

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  • Laertes is a character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
    's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

    Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is the second novel by Goethe, published in 1795-96. While his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, featured a hero driven to suicide by despair, the eponymous hero of this novel undergoes a journey of self-realization....
    .
  • Laertes was the name of a character in Hamlet
    Hamlet

    Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
    .
  • There is also an ancient Greek
    Ancient Greece

    The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
     city called Laertes, currently in Antalya
    Antalya

    Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean Sea coast of southwestern Turkey. It is the capital city of Antalya Province Provinces of Turkey. The population of the city was 775,157 in the 2007 census....
    , Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    .