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Telemachus appears in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1833 poem "Ulysses," where the title speaker (based on Dante's version) expresses disappointment in his son. Telemachus is a frequent character in the poetry of Louise Glück. [16] Telemachus was the name of Carole King's cat and is pictured on the cover of her album Tapestry. [17]
Telemachus and Mentor (1956 image) In the Odyssey, Mentor (Greek: Μέντωρ, Méntōr; gen.: Μέντορος) [1] was the son of Alcimus. In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus. When Odysseus left for the Trojan War, he placed Mentor in charge of his son Telemachus, [2] and of Odysseus' palace. [3]
In Book I, the Goddess Athena disguises herself as Mentes, an old family friend of Odysseus, when she goes to visit his son, Telemachus.Athena, disguised as him, tells Telemachus that he is sailing to the city of Temese with his own crew, claiming that he is in search of bronze.
Tennyson adopts aspects of the Ulysses character and narrative from many sources; his treatment of Ulysses is the first modern account. [18] The ancient Greek poet Homer introduced Ulysses (Odysseus in Greek [19]), and many later poets took up the character, including Euripides, [20] Horace, Dante, William Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope.
Richard Best is a character based on Celtic scholar Richard Irvine Best. Best was an acquaintance of J. M. Synge and Joyce. Best was depicted as one of the characters in the National Library scene in Episode 9 "Scylla and Charybdis". [8] Best was known to have disapproved of Joyce's characterisation of him. [8]
The stories told in the Odyssey by Nestor and Menelaus to Telemachus, and Odysseus to a Scherian court make Odysseus into a hero as he fights monsters and seduces goddesses. According to Penelope in The Penelopiad , Odysseus was a liar who drunkenly fought a one-eyed bartender then boasted it was a giant cannibalistic cyclops .
Spoonbenders follows the lives of a "somewhat dysfunctional and often hilarious" Telemachus family. [2] The main characters include: Teddy Telemachus, the patriarch (a con man); Maureen, his wife (a powerful psychic); their three children Irene (a human lie detector), Frankie (a telekinetic), and Buddy (a person who can foretell the future); and Matty, Irene's son who can travel outside his ...
In Eumaeus's hut is Odysseus in disguise. Eumaeus greets Telemachus as a father, expressing his deep worry while Telemachus was gone and his relief now that is safely back. Homer even uses a simile to reiterate the father–son relationship between Telemachus and Eumaeus. He says, And as a loving father embraces his own son