Telemachus
mythological figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the former owner
in the texts
Orations
Son of Odysseus and Penelope, cited both as dismissive of the disguised beggar and as recipient of lavish royal gifts from Menelaus and Helen.
the gifts of Helen and Menelaus to Telemachus.
And Telemachus too says well-nigh such other things about him to the swineherd, bidding him send him to the city as quickly as possible to beg there, and not to maintain him more days at the station;
and at the last he tried to shoot, being inexperienced in archery and his hands so ruined by luxury that he could not even touch the bowstring unless someone should smear it with fat — and that too with Odysseus looking on and his beloved present, among so many men — being unable even to bend the bow, nor understanding how Telemachus would set up the axes.
Stromata
Telemachus, son of Odysseus, quoted washing his hands before praying.
and Telemachus,
having washed his hands in the grey sea, prayed to Athena.
Against Pantaenetus
The former owner of the mining property and slaves before Mnesicles' purchase for Pantaenetus.
The vendor to us of the mining property and the slaves was Mnesicles, for he had purchased them for the plaintiff from Telemachus, the former owner;
Orestes
Son of Odysseus, cited by Orestes as a contrasting example who did not need to kill his mother.
You see, Telemachus did not kill the wife of Odysseus, because she did not marry husband upon husband, but the marriage-bed remained untainted in her home.
Chrestomathy
Son of Odysseus used to test and expose his father's feigned madness.
They detect Odysseus, who had feigned madness because he did not wish to join the expedition, when, at the suggestion of Palamedes, they snatched up his son Telemachus to punish him.