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I like antinous' determination to secure the throne, good for him /silly

The four hypothetical wives of Telemachus: Polycaste, Circe, Nausicaa and Cassiphone.

Homer left Telemachus’s fate untold, so Greeks and Romans filled the gaps in Post-Homeric Tradition, linking him (and Odysseus) to many possible women. But which myth feels most true?

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Circe's children cuz why not? I mixed both Odysseus and Circe making them. I didn't plan on drawing them today but all the Circe art on twt/x Motivated me a lotヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ This is an AU I'm working on for fun! know that they are very depressed :,D

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Circe with Telegonus and Cassiphone

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Some important notes on the Cassiphone myth

This myth always gets a fair deal of attention when it gets posted because of how ridiculous it is, and it has devolved into a game of telephone where the basic facts are being distorted; so, as someone that has spent more time researching Circe & co. than most people, here are some corrections:

- This story is only attested in the poem Alexandra, written by the early 3rd-century BCE poet Lycophron. However, that text is framed as Cassandra uttering prophecies, so it consists of riddles and deliberately obscure statements. As a result, the 12th-century CE scholar John Tzetzes wrote scholia explaining what the author was referring to. Cassiphone appears by name only in these scholia.

- The Alexandra is not part of the Telegony, nor is it a “Telegony myth.” The Telegony is an archaic epic attributed to Eugammon of Cyrene, and neither Cassiphone nor the revenge murders feature in it. That would be like calling Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis “an Iliad myth.”

- Tzetzes makes a mistake in his scholia, he says that Cassiphone and Telemachus married each other. Scholars now understand that the wife that Lycophron was referring to was Circe, not Cassiphone. Given this, the Telemachus-Cassiphone marriage is not an idea/myth that existed in ancient Greece in any capacity.

Hornblower, Simon. LYKOPHRON : Alexandra. Greek Text, Translation, Commentary, and Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2015.

- This is not really a correction, rather a fun fact, but Cassiphone is not the only daughter attributed to Circe and/or Odysseus. They have another daughter named Rhome who is mentioned in Servius’ Commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid 1.273

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