In Telegonia, a lost epic poem, Telegonus was sent to Ithaca by his mother, the sorceress Circe. There, he unwittingly killed his father, Odysseus, with a spear tipped with the point of a stingray, fulfilling the prophecy that death would come to Odysseus “from the sea.” He then returned to his mother’s island, Aeaea, with Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and her son Telemachus. Telegonus married Penelope while Circe married Telemachus.
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