Autolykos
mythological figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the sons of Autolykos
in the texts
Odyssey
Odysseus's maternal grandfather, a renowned thief and perjurer gifted by Hermes, who named Odysseus and hosted him during the boar hunt that left him with his identifying scar.
Odysseus, therefore, went to Parnassus to get the presents from Autolykos, who with his sons shook hands with him and gave him welcome.
When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, the sons of Autolykos went out with their hounds hunting, and Odysseus went too.
And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mount Parnassus with his excellent grandfather Autolykos - who was the most accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world - and with the sons of Autolykos.