In Greek mythology, Anticleia was the mother of Odysseus and the daughter of the master-thief Autolycus. She married Laertes, king of Ithaca, and died of grief while her son was away at Troy. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus meets her shade in the underworld before she tells him of the suitors devouring his house.
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I.Family
Anticleia was the daughter of Autolycus and the wife of Laertes. By Laertes she bore Odysseus. Apollodorus names her Anticlia in the catalogue of those who sailed to Troy with their sons.
Hyginus records a scandalous variant in which Sisyphus seduced Anticleia before her marriage, when Autolycus was delayed — whence some call Odysseus Sisyphean.
II.In the Odyssey
When Odysseus performed the rites of the dead, Anticleia's spirit appeared among the shades. She told him she had not died by sickness or by the gentle arrows of Artemis but of longing for him and remembrance of Laertes' kindness, and she described the ruin of the household by the suitors.
III.Parnassus and the scar
While Odysseus was still a boy, Anticleia and Laertes sent him to her father Autolycus on Mount Parnassus to receive promised gifts. On the boar hunt a tusk gored him above the knee; Autolycus gave him the name Odysseus, and the scar remained for Eurycleia to recognize when she washed the disguised beggar's feet in Ithaca.