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Eugammon of Cyrene (Greek: Εὐγάμων ὁ Κυρηναῖος) was an early Greek poet to whom the epic Telegony was ascribed. According to Clement of Alexandria , he stole the poem from the legendary early poet Musaeus ; meaning, possibly, that a version of a long-existing traditional epic was written down by Eugammon.
The Telegony (Ancient Greek: Τηλεγόνεια or Τηλεγονία, romanized: Tēlegóneia, Tēlegonía) [1] is a lost epic poem of Ancient Greek literature.It is named after Telegonus, the son of Odysseus by Circe, whose name ("born far away") is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca.
In Greek mythology, Telegonus (/ t ə ˈ l ɛ ɡ ə n ə s /; Ancient Greek: Τηλέγονος means "born afar") was the youngest son of Circe and Odysseus [1] and thus, brother to Agrius and Latinus [2] or Nausithous and Nausinous, [3] and Cassiphone. [4] In some accounts, he was called the son of the nymph Calypso and Odysseus instead. [5]
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However, a fight ensued and Telegonus killed Odysseus without knowing who Odysseus was. [2] [7] In the myth, Telegonus used a spear that had a venomous stingray spine to kill Odysseus. [7] The plot also dealt with the subsequent marriages between Telegonus and Odysseus' wife Penelope and between Circe and Odysseus' son by Penelope, Telemachus. [2]
In Hesiod's Theogony, [1] Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrrhenians with his brothers Agrius and Telegonus.According to the Byzantine author John the Lydian, Hesiod, in the Catalogue of Women, considered Latinus to be the brother of Graecus, who is described as the son of Zeus by Pandora, the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha. [2]
Cyrene or Cyrenaica was a Greek colony on the North African coast, in what is now northeastern Libya, founded by Dorian settlers from Thera (modern Santorini) in the 7th century BC. Kings of Cyrene received a recurring posthumous hero cult like that of the Dorian kings of Sparta .
In Greek mythology, Euphemus / j uː ˈ f iː m ə s / (Ancient Greek: Εὔφημος, Eὔphēmos, pronounced [eʊ̯́pʰɛːmos] "reputable") was counted among the Calydonian hunters [1] and the Argonauts, [2] and was connected with the legend of the foundation of Cyrene. [3] [4]