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Odysseus meets his father Laertes on his return to Ithaca (Theodoor van Thulden, 1600). In Greek mythology, Laertes (/ l eɪ ˈ ɜːr t iː z /; Ancient Greek: Λαέρτης, romanized: Laértēs Greek pronunciation: [laː.ér.tɛːs]; also spelled Laërtes) was the king of the Cephallenians, an ethnic group who lived both on the Ionian Islands and on the mainland. [1]
Laertes may refer to: Laertes (father of Odysseus) , Ionian king and the father of Odysseus in Greek mythology Laertes ( Hamlet ) , son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet
Laertes / l eɪ ˈ ɜːr t iː z / is a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Laertes is Polonius ' son and Ophelia 's brother. In the final scene, he mortally stabs Hamlet with a poison-tipped sword to avenge the deaths of his father and sister, for which he blamed Hamlet.
Polonius" is Latin for "Polish" or "a/the Polish man." The English translation of the book refers to its author as a statesman of the "polonian empyre". In the first quarto of Hamlet, Polonius is named "Corambis". It has been suggested that this derives from "crambe" or "crambo", derived from a Latin phrase meaning "reheated cabbage", implying ...
Anticlea was the daughter of Autolycus [1] and Amphithea. [2] The divine trickster and messenger of the gods, Hermes, was her paternal grandfather.Anticlea was the mother of Odysseus [3] by Laërtes [4] (though some say by Sisyphus [5]).
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Laertes and his sister Ophelia. A sister complex (Japanese: シスターコンプレックス) is a state of strong attachment and obsession to one's sister or sisters.In Japanese, it is commonly abbreviated as "siscon" (シスコン), [1] [2] [3] in which case the term can also refer those brothers and sisters who feel a strong sense of affection or attachment to their sisters.
The destroyer was renamed HMS Laertes on 30 September 1913. She possessed three 4-inch guns and four torpedo tubes, and was designed to operate in British coastal waters against enemy surface and submarine shipping. Laertes became part of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla based at Harwich.