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Telemachus (also transliterated
Transliteration

Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice....
 as Telemachos or Telémakhos; literally, "far-away fighter") is a figure 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....
, the son 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....
 and 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....
, and a central character in Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
's 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....
.






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Telemachus Departing From Nestor Henry Howard Project Gutenberg Etext 13725
Telemachus (also transliterated
Transliteration

Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice....
 as Telemachos or Telémakhos; literally, "far-away fighter") is a figure 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....
, the son 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....
 and 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....
, and a central character in Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
's 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....
. 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 the Telemachy
Telemachy

The Telemachy is a term traditionally applied to the first four books of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. They are named so because -- just as the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus -- they tell the story of Odysseus' son Telemachus as he journeys from home for the first time in search of news about his missing father....
.

In the Telegony


The Telegony
Telegony

The Telegony is a lost ancient Greek Epic poetry about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by Circe. His name is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca....
 was a short 2-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey. In this mythological postscript, Odysseus is accidentally killed by Telegonus
Telegonus

In Greek mythology, Telegonus was the youngest son of Circe and Odysseus.When Telegonus grew up, Circe sent him to find Odysseus, who by this time had finally returned to Ithaca from the Trojan War....
, his unknown son by the goddess Circe
Circe

In Greek mythology, Circe , is a Queen goddess living on the island of Aeaea.Circe's father was Helios , the god of the sun and the owner of the land where Odysseus' men ate cattle, and her mother was Hecate the goddess of magic and the moon ; she was sister of two kings of Colchis, Aeetes and Perses, and of Pasipha?, mother of the Mino...
. After Odysseus' death Telemachus returns to Aeaea
Aeaea

Aeaea was a possibly Greek mythology island said to be the home of the sorceress Circe.Though the somewhat inconsistent geography of the Odyssey is more mythic than literal, Aeaea was later identified by classical Roman writers with Mount Circeo on Cape Circeo on the western coast of Italy — about 100 kilometers south of Rome &md...
 with Telegonus and Penelope, and there marries Circe.

In later classical authors


  • In The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, it is alleged that the Roman Emperor Hadrian
    Hadrian

    Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
     asked the Delphic Oracle about Homer's birthplace and parentage. The Oracle replied that Homer came from Ithaca, and that Telemachus was his father by Epicasta, daughter of Nestor
    Nestor

    Nestor may refer to:*Nestor , the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology*Nestor *Nestor , a genus of parrots in ornithology...
    .


  • According to Aristotle
    Aristotle

    Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
     and Dictys of Crete, Telemachus married Nausicaa
    Nausicaa

    In ancient Greek mythology, Nausicaa is the daughter of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians and Queen Arete in Homer's Odyssey , Book Six. Her name means, in Greek, "burner of ships"....
    , King Alcinous' daughter, and fathered a son named Perseptolis or Ptoliporthus.


Other appearances


  • In The Adventures of Krytolandros, Telemachos also marries Nausicaa, but has a son named Krytolandros who goes on a journey to learn of Odysseus' wanderings.
  • Telemachus is the subject of François Fénelon
    François Fénelon

    Fran?ois de Salignac de la Mothe-F?nelon, more commonly known as Fran?ois F?nelon , was a France Roman Catholic theology, poet and writer....
    's The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses (1699), a scathing attack on the monarchy
    Monarchy

    A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
     of France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    .
  • In James Joyce
    James Joyce

    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
    's Ulysses
    Ulysses (novel)

    Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
    , Stephen Dedalus
    Stephen Dedalus

    Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, as well as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's monumental Ulysses ....
     is the analogue of Telemachus.
  • In Robert Shea
    Robert Shea

    Robert Joseph Shea was a novelist and former journalism best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!....
     and Robert Anton Wilson
    Robert Anton Wilson

    Robert Anton Wilson or RAW was an United States novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychonaut, futurologist and libertarian.Wilson described his writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations?to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps and no one model elevated to the Truth." ... ...
    's The Illuminatus! Trilogy
    The Illuminatus! Trilogy

    The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a trilogy written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson purportedly between 1969 and 1971, and first published in 1975....
     the fictional book Telemachus Sneezed is described which is a parody of Ayn Rand
    Ayn Rand

    Ayn Rand , was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism ....
    's Atlas Shrugged
    Atlas Shrugged

    Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in literature in the United States. It was Rand's fourth, List of longest novels, and last novel....
    .


  • In the French-Japanese anime Ulysses 31
    Ulysses 31

    is a France-Japanese anime series that updates the Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology mythology of Odysseus to the 31st century. The show comprises 26 half-hour episodes and was produced by DIC Entertainment in conjunction with Tokyo Movie Shinsha....
    , which adapts Homer's Odyssey in a futuristic setting, Telemachus appears as a 12 year old boy, son of Ulysses. He is always followed by his robot-friend Nono and an alien girl called Themis (renamed Yumi in the English dub).