The Telegony (Ancient Greek: Τηλεγόνεια, romanized: Tēlegóneia; Latin: Telegonia) is a lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by...

Telegony is a largely discredited theory of heredity holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent; thus...

and he and Telemachus bring swift and bloody death to the suitors. The Telegony was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus...

Epics: the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony. Though these poems survive only in fragments, their content is known from...

Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey...

(Arctinus of Miletus) Little Iliad (Lesches) Iliupersis (Arctinus of Miletus) Nostoi (Agias/Eumelus of Corinth) Odyssey (Homer) Telegony (Eugammon of Cyrene)...

by Telegonus. The story of Telegonus meeting his father was told in the Telegony, an early Greek epic that does not survive except in a summary, but that...

Antiquities of Greece, Volume 1 Homer, the Ilaid 1 Eugammon of Cyrene, Telegony Fragment Benjamin Sammons, Device and Composition in the Greek Epic Cycle...

King Telephus of Mysia. The last poem in the Epic Cycle is called the Telegony, and is now lost. According to remaining fragments, it told the story of...

back home to Ithaca following the end of the Trojan War. The story of the Telegony, the lost sequel to the Odyssey, goes that her full-brother Telegonus left...

crossed a zebra stallion with pony mares to investigate the theory of telegony, or paternal impression. In The Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin...

fragments remain of the "alternative ending" of sorts known as the Telegony. The Telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the Odyssey, corresponding to Book...

Thesprotia in Epirus, an ancient region in northwestern Greece. In the Telegony, the lost sequel to the Odyssey, she marries the wandering hero Odysseus...

and Telegonus, who ruled over the Tyrsenoi, that is the Etruscans. The Telegony, an epic now lost, relates the later history of the last of these. Circe...

respect and much success. Penelope also appears in the lost Greek epic Telegony. that does not survive except in a summary, but that was attributed to...

Telemachus (a son of Odysseus) That relation possibly dated to the lost epic Telegony of Eugammon of Cyrene. He was also depicted as the son of Odysseus and...

Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...

(Greek: Εὐγάμων ὁ Κυρηναῖος) was an early Greek poet to whom the epic Telegony was ascribed. According to Clement of Alexandria, he stole the poem from...

Homer, Iliad 2. 625 ff Homer, Iliad 11. 696 ff Homer, Iliad 11. 737 ff Telegony Fragment 1 (Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica trans. Evelyn-White 1920)...

doubled unions, of a god and of a mortal man on one night, result, through telegony, in the semi-divine nature of Greek heroes such as Theseus and Heracles...

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sometimes called the author of the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony; Eusebius says that he flourished in 764/3 BC Cleanthes (c. 330 BC – c...

Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...

Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...

common descent. He recounted how Lord Morton's mare apparently demonstrated telegony, offspring inheriting characteristics of a previous mate of the female...

Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...

Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...

Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...

unknown what happened to the hybrid mare itself. This led to new ideas on telegony, referred to as pangenesis by the British naturalist Charles Darwin. At...

Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...