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27-802: Telemaque , the French name for the Greek mythological figure Telemachus , may refer to: Opera [ edit ] Télémaque (Campra) , a 1704 opera by André Campra Télémaque (Destouches) , a 1714 opera by André Cardinal Destouches People [ edit ] Darwin Telemaque (born 1968), Dominican footballer Denmark Vesey (1767–1822), American rebel slave known as Telemaque while enslaved Hervé Télémaque (born 1937), French painter Vaughn Telemaque (born 1990), American football player See also [ edit ] Les Aventures de Télémaque ,

54-570: A 1699 novel Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso , a 1790 ballet Telemaco (disambiguation) Telemachus (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Telemaque . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemaque&oldid=1255647703 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

81-568: A bowman does. In Homer's Odyssey , Telemachus, under the instructions of Athena (who accompanies him during the quest), spends the first four books trying to gain knowledge of his father, Odysseus, who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant. At the outset of Telemachus's journey, Odysseus had been absent from his home at Ithaca for twenty years due to the Trojan War and the intervention of Poseidon . During his absence, Odysseus's house has been occupied by hordes of suitors seeking

108-483: A row were flowing with bright water hard by one another, turned one this way, one that. And round about soft meadows of violets and parsley were blooming... A long-standing tradition begun by Euhemerus in the late 4th century BC and supported by Callimachus , endorsed by modern Maltese tradition, identifies Ogygia with the island of Gozo , the second largest island in the Maltese archipelago . Aeschylus calls

135-441: Is Odysseus's great grandfather on his mother's side, through Autolycos . Calypso finally, though reluctantly, instructed Odysseus to build a small raft, gave him food and wine, and let him depart the island. The Odyssey describes Ogygia as follows: ...and he (Hermes) found her within. A great fire was burning in the hearth, and from afar over the isle there was a fragrance of cleft cedar and juniper as they burned. But she within

162-558: Is alleged that the Roman Emperor Hadrian asked the Delphic Oracle about Homer's birthplace and parentage. The Oracle replied that Homer came from Ithaca and that Telemachus was his father by Epicasta , daughter of Nestor. According to Aristotle and Dictys of Crete , Telemachus married Nausicaa , King Alcinous's daughter, and fathered a son named Perseptolis or Ptoliporthus . Eustathius says that

189-536: Is an island mentioned in Homer 's Odyssey , Book V, as the home of the nymph Calypso , the daughter of the Titan Atlas . In Homer's Odyssey , Calypso detained Odysseus on Ogygia for seven years and kept him from returning to his home of Ithaca , wanting to marry him. Athena complained about Calypso's actions to Zeus , who sent the messenger Hermes to Ogygia to order Calypso to release Odysseus. Hermes

216-644: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Telemachus The first four books of the Odyssey focus on Telemachus's journeys in search of news about his father, who has yet to return home from the Trojan War , and are traditionally given the title the Telemachy . Telemachus's name in Greek means "far from battle", or perhaps "fighting from afar", as

243-541: The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology : In the post-Homeric traditions, we read that Palamedes, when endeavouring to persuade Odysseus to join the Greeks against Troy, and the latter feigned idiocy, placed the infant Telemachus before the plough with which Odysseus was ploughing (Hygin. Fab. 95; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 81; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 384; Aelian, V. H. xiii. 12.). In Contest of Homer and Hesiod , it

270-583: The North American coast. Ogygia is associated with the Ogygian deluge and with the mythological figure Ogyges , in the sense that the word Ogygian means " primeval ", " primal ", and "at earliest dawn", which would suggest that Homer's Ogygia was a primeval island. However, Ogyges as a primeval, aboriginal ruler was usually sited in Boeotia , where he founded Thebes there, naming it Ogygia at

297-638: The Nile Ogygian, and Eustathius the Byzantine grammarian said that Ogygia was the earliest name for Egypt, while other suggested locations for Ogygia include the Ionian Sea . Maps of historians and geographers like Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville , Philipp Clüver , Petrus Bertius and Aaron Arrowsmith refer to Ogygia as an island northwest of Corfu , Ionian Islands , Greece, which adds fuel to modern Greek tradition that Ogygia is, indeed,

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324-461: The beggar. When Penelope challenges the suitors to string Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow through the handle-holes of twelve axe heads, Telemachus is the first to attempt the task. He would have completed the task, nearly stringing the bow on his fourth attempt; however, Odysseus subtly stops him before he can finish his attempt. Following the suitors' failure at this task, Odysseus reveals himself and he and Telemachus bring swift and bloody death to

351-480: The character of Cassiphone —the daughter of Odysseus and Circe, and therefore half-sister of Telemachus—into the narrative. In this account, Telemachus still marries Circe, but Odysseus is resurrected by Circe at some point. Afterward, he weds Telemachus to Cassiphone. When events transpire that result in Telemachus killing Circe after quarrelling with her, Cassiphone kills Telemachus in revenge. From

378-653: The eighteenth century, most based on Fénelon's version. Among the most famous of these operas were André Cardinal Destouches 's Télémaque (1714), Alessandro Scarlatti 's Telemaco (1718), Gluck's Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe (1765), Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Gli errori di Telemaco (1776), Jean-François Le Sueur 's Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso ou Le triomphe de la sagesse (1796), Simon Mayr 's Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso (1797), and Fernando Sor's Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso (1797). Telemachus appears in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1833 poem "Ulysses," where

405-488: The hand of Penelope . Telemachus first visits Nestor and is well received by the old man who regales him with stories of his father's glory. Telemachus then departs with Nestor's son Peisistratus , who accompanies him to the halls of Menelaus and his wife Helen . Whilst there, Telemachus is again treated as an honored guest as Menelaus and Helen tell complementary yet contradictory stories of his father's exploits at Troy. Telemachus also learns from Menelaus that his father

432-495: The location of Ogygia: First I will tell you the author of the piece, if there is no objection, who begins after Homer’s fashion with, an isle Ogygian lies far out at sea, distant five days’ sail from Britain, going westwards, and three others equally distant from it, and from each other, are more opposite to the summer visits of the sun; in one of which the barbarians fable that Cronus is imprisoned by Zeus, whilst his son lies by his side, as though keeping guard over those islands and

459-461: The mother was Polycaste , the daughter of Nestor . Others relate that he became the father of Latinus by Circe (Hygin. Fab. 127; comp. Telegonus). He is also said to have had a daughter called Roma, who married Aeneas (Serv. ad Aen. i. 273.). Servius (ad Aen. x. 167) makes Telemachus the founder of the town of Clusium in Etruria. Telemachus was the subject of numerous operas throughout

486-633: The same island as the island of Othonoi . Victor Bérard identified Perejil as the location of the mythical island of Ogygia. Approximately seven centuries after Homer , the Alexandrian geographer Strabo criticized Polybius on the geography of the Odyssey . Strabo proposed that Scheria and Ogygia were located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean . At another instance he Polybius suppresses statements. For Homer says also, 'Now after

513-483: The sea becomes clogged and full of earth, by which it has the appearance of being solid. The passage of Plutarch has created some controversy. W. Hamilton indicated the similarities of Plutarch's account on "the great continent" and Plato 's location of Atlantis in Timaeus 24E – 25A. Kepler in his Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia estimated that “the great continent” was America and attempted to locate Ogygia and

540-456: The sea, which they call ‘the Sea of Cronus. The great continent by which the great sea is surrounded on all sides, they say, lies less distant from the others, but about five thousand stadia from Ogygia, for one sailing in a rowing-galley; for the sea is difficult of passage and muddy through the great number of currents, and these currents issue out of the great land, and shoals are formed by them, and

567-547: The ship had left the river-stream of Oceanus', and, 'In the island of Ogygia, where is the navel of the sea', where the daughter of Atlas lives; and again, regarding the Phaiakians, 'Far apart we live in the wash of the waves, the farthermost of men, and no other mortals are conversant with us.' All these clearly suggest that he composed them to take place in the Atlantic Ocean." Plutarch also gives an account of

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594-406: The suitors. The Telegony was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey . In this mythological postscript, Odysseus is accidentally killed by Telegonus , his unknown son by the goddess Circe . After Odysseus's death, Telemachus returns to Aeaea with Telegonus and Penelope, and there marries Circe. Seemingly later tradition included

621-496: The surrounding islands. Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh used Ogygia as a synonym for Ireland in the title of his Irish history, Ogygia: Seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia ("Ogygia: Or a Chronological Account of Irish Events"), 1685. Wilhelm von Christ was convinced that the continent was America and states that in the 1st-century sailors traveling through Iceland , Greenland , and the Baffin Region (Qikiqtaaluk) reached

648-411: The time. In another account of Ogyges, he brought his people to the area first known as Acte . That land was subsequently called Ogygia in his honor but ultimately known as Attica . Ogygia is used by Roderick O'Flaherty as an allegory for Ireland in his book published in 1685 as Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc., in 1793 translated into English by Rev. James Hely, as "Ogygia, or

675-593: The title speaker (based on Dante's version) expresses disappointment in his son. Telemachus is a frequent character in the poetry of Louise Glück . Telemachus was the name of Carole King 's cat and is pictured on the cover of her album Tapestry . "Telemachus" is the title of a poem by American poet Ocean Vuong . [REDACTED] Media related to Telemachus at Wikimedia Commons Ogygia Ogygia ( / oʊ ˈ dʒ ɪ dʒ i ə / ; Ancient Greek : Ὠγυγίη , romanized :  Ōgygíē [ɔːɡyɡíɛː] , or Ὠγυγία Ōgygíā [ɔːɡyɡíaː] )

702-455: Was last seen stranded on Ogygia . Telemachus focuses on his father's return to Ithaca in Book XV. He visits Eumaeus , the swineherd, who happens to be hosting a disguised Odysseus. After Odysseus reveals himself to Telemachus due to Athena's advice, the two men plan the downfall of the suitors. Telemachus then returns to the palace to keep an eye on the suitors and to await his father as

729-474: Was singing with a sweet voice as she went to and fro before the loom , weaving with a golden shuttle. Round about the cave grew a luxuriant wood, alder and poplar and sweet-smelling cypress , wherein birds long of wing were wont to nest, owls and falcons and sea-crows with chattering tongues, who ply their business on the sea. And right there about the hollow cave ran trailing a garden vine, in pride of its prime, richly laden with clusters. And fountains four in

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