Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Laertes

    mythological figure · 5 works · 16 mentions · 36 anchored passages

    his father · his old father · my father · old father Laertes · old man · son of Laertes · the father who brought you up

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    Odysseus's aged father, who has withdrawn to the countryside and no longer comes to town.

    Laertes had bought her with his own wealth when she was quite young;
    chapter 1
    Our fathers were friends before us, as old Laertes will tell you, if you will go and ask him.
    chapter 1
    ‘Sweet hearts,’ said she, ‘Odysseus is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait - for I would not have skill in weaving perish unrecorded - till I have completed a shroud for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.
    chapter 2

    Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

    Homeric figure invoked as an analogy for an aged chief who parts with power and property.

    Like Laertes in the Odyssee and like Lear in the tragedy of Shakespeare, the old Chief, in the decay of his vigour, parts with his power and retains but a fraction of the property he had administered;
    lecture vii ancient divisions of the family
    The older members of the Family or Joint Family seem in advanced age to have become pensioners on it, and, like Laertes in the Odyssee, to have vacated their privileges of ownership or of authority.
    lecture vii ancient divisions of the family

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Father of Odysseus, served (along with Odysseus) by the free-born Eumaeus.

    Eumaeus, the son of Ctesius son of Ormenus, a man wholly free and wealthy—did he not serve in Ithaca with Odysseus and Laertes?
    oration 85

    Ancient Law19th Century · English

    Father of Ulysses in the Odyssey, cited as an example of a father losing headship in old age.

    but the relations of Ulysses and Laertes in the Odyssey appear to show that, where extraordinary valour and sagacity were united in the son, the father in the decrepitude of age was deposed from the headship of the family.
    chapter 9

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Odysseus's father, named as a patronymic.

    but when the Achaeans began to tire of watching them, Ajax said to Odysseus, "Odysseus, noble son of Laertes, you shall either lift me, or I you, and let Zeus settle it between us.
    chapter 23