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TELEMACHUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 541 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TELEMACHUS , in See also:

Greek See also:legend (Odyssey i.–iv., xv.–See also:xxiv.; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 127), son of See also:Odysseus and See also:Penelope. When he reached manhood, he visited See also:Pylos and See also:Sparta to make inquiries about his See also:father, who had been absent for nearly twenty years. On his return, he found that Odysseus had reached See also:home before him. Then father and son, aided by Eumaeus and Philoetius, slew or drove out the suitors of Penelope (see ODYSSEUS). According to later tradition, Telemachus became the See also:husband of See also:Circe and by her the father of See also:Latinus and of a daughter See also:Roma, afterwards the wife of See also:Aeneas. In another See also:story, he married a daughter of Circe, named Cassiphone; having slain his See also:mother-in-See also:law in a See also:quarrel, he was himself killed by his wife. This is the only See also:notice of the See also:death of Telemachus. The See also:foundation of See also:Clusium in See also:Etruria was attributed to him.

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