Telemachus

Mortal prince of Ithaca, only son of Odysseus and Penelope. An infant at his father departure for Troy, he comes of age in the opening four books of the Odyssey (the Telemachy), travelling to Pylos and Sparta under Athena guidance, and fights beside the returned Odysseus against the suitors. Named in the prose of greek_odysseus as his son by Penelope.

Parentage

• Odysseus
• Penelope

Domains

• coming of age
• filial loyalty

Powers

• comes of age under Athena's guidance, journeying to Pylos and Sparta to seek news of his father
• fights at his returned father's side to slay the suitors in the hall

Epithets

• πεπνυμένος

Relations

• father: Odysseus
• mother: Penelope

Sources

• Homer, Odyssey 1-4 (the Telemachy), 16, 22
• Apollodorus, Epitome 3.7, 7.38-39
• Gantz, Early Greek Myth (1993), pp. 711-712