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In Greek mythology, Telemachus (/ t ə ˈ l ɛ m ə k ə s / tə-LEM-ə-kəs; Ancient Greek: Τηλέμαχος, romanized: Tēlemakhos, lit. 'far-fighter') is the son of Odysseus and Penelope , who are central characters in Homer 's Odyssey .
Saint Telemachus (also Almachus [1] or Almachius) was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret, [3] tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and was stoned to death by the crowd.
Antinous is the first of the suitors to be killed. Drinking in the Great Hall, he is slain by an arrow to the throat shot by Odysseus. Eurymachus then tries to blame Antinous for the suitors' wrongs. [5] [6] [7] In one account, Penelope was seduced by Antinous and was sent away by Odysseus to her father Icarius. [8]
Killed by Telemachus. Later recounts his death to Agamemnon and Achilles while in the underworld and blames Penelope for it. [12] Amphinomus. Shows courtesy towards the disguised Odysseus, who warns him against staying; [13] the warning goes unheeded, though, and he is killed along with the other suitors, though by Telemachus and not Odysseus.
Telemachus married Telegonus' mother, the enchantress Circe, while Telegonus took to wife Odysseus' widow Penelope. [6] By Penelope, he was the father of Italus who, according to some accounts, gave his name to Italy. [7] What appears to be later tradition holds that Odysseus would also be resurrected by Circe after he was killed by Telegonus. [8]
He participated in the Trojan War and was killed by Odysseus. [1] Leiocritus, son of Arisbas and an Achaean warrior who was killed by Aeneas during the siege of Troy. [2] Leiocritus, son of the Evenor and one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Zacynthus along with other 43 wooers. [3] He was slain by Telemachus. [4]
Telemachus begins to learn and appreciate what kind of man his father was. The story Nestor tells of Orestes in particular serves as a model for Telemachus to emulate: just as Orestes killed the overbearing suitor who occupied his father Agamemnon's estate, so should Telemachus kill the suitors and reclaim his own father's estate.
He was killed by a spear thrown by Telemachus during the Ithaca massacre?; ironically, Amphinomous had twice tried to dissuade the suitors from killing Telemachus. [3] Amphinomus, son of Diomedes and the daughter of King Daunus of Apulia in Italy. [4] There was also a Greek geometer called Amphinomus.