In a post-Homeric tradition Telegonus, Odysseus’s son by the sorceress Circe, arrived in Ithaca searching for his father, who had left Circe’s island, Aeaea. He encountered Odysseus and, failing to recognize him, accidentally killed him with a spear tipped with the point of a stingray, thus fulfilling the prophecy in Homer’s Odyssey that death would come to Odysseus “from the sea.” Telegonus eventually returned to his mother’s island, Aeaea, with Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus (Telegonus’s half-brother). Telegonus married Penelope and Telemachus married Circe.
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