In Antiquity, the Telegony may have also been known as the Thesprotis (Greek: Θεσπρωτίς), which is referred to once by Pausanias in … See more

Only two lines of the poem's original text survive. For its storyline, we are dependent primarily on a summary of the Telegonus myth in the See more

In Dante's Divine Comedy, in the eighth bolgia of the Inferno, Dante and his guide meet Ulisse among the false counsellors, and receive a variant accounting of Ulisse's death "from the sea", in a five-month journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules See more

The date of composition of the Telegony is uncertain. Cyrene, the native city of purported author Eugammon, was founded in 631 BC; but the narrative details may have existed prior to … See more

According to a later Hellenistic tradition, Circe brought Odysseus back to life after his death, and he arranged for Telemachus to … See more

1. ^ "Some have seen in the 'burst of happy marriages' in which the Telegoneia ends an explanation for its being ascribed to Eugammon, a … See more

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