Crossword clues for telemachus
telemachus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Telemachus \Tel`e*ma"chus\, prop. n. The son of Odysseus and Penelope, as told in Homer's Oddysey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
son of Odysseus and Penelope, from Latinized form of Greek Telemakhos, literally "fighting from afar," from tele "from afar" (see tele-) + makhe "a battle, fight" (see -machy).
Wikipedia
Telemachus ( ; , Tēlemakhos, literally "far-fighter") is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey. The first four books of the Odyssey focus on Telemachus' 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 is a character in Homer's Odyssey.
Telemachus may also refer to:
- Telemachus (Acragas) (fl. 554BC), leader of an uprising in Acragas, Sicily
- Saint Telemachus, monk and martyr
- Temeluchus, a tartaruchus in the non-canonical Apocalypse of Paul
- Roger Telemachus, a South African cricketer
- Telemaco, 1765 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
- The Adventures of Telemachus, an historically important popular work by François Fénelon
- Telemachus, pet cat who appears on the cover of Carole King's Tapestry
- A moniker of the British hip hop producer David L.G. Webb, more commonly known as Chemo
Telemachus was the leader of a 554 BC general uprising in the Greek city-state of Acragas, Sicily, which culminated in the overthrow of the cruel tyrant Phalaris, who was roasted to death in his own brazen bull.
Telemachus was the ancestor of Aenesidamus and of Aenesidamus's son Theron (tyrant c. 488–472 BC).
Category:Ancient Acragantines Category:6th-century BC Greek people
Usage examples of "telemachus".
I could check in on Clytaemnestra and on Penelope, on Telemachus and Orestes.
Olivia or Telemachus could question him, the old man waved the punchbowl ladle at them again and they found themselves blown from their chairs into a small room just off the parlor.
I thought I was dreaming when I heard a young woman in her position reasoning with more acuteness than Minerva displays in her colloquies with Telemachus.
Your neck of the woods is rife with nodes of chthonic power, Telemachus.
Telemachus, bored by his night duty, welcomed the slight deviation from normal routine.