Galaxy/The codex of Leontophonus

In one post-Homeric tradition recorded by Apollodorus, the son whom Odysseus left in Aetolia when he married the daughter of Thoas son of Andraemon and died there in old age — an ending wholly distinct from Homer's peaceful restoration on Ithaca and from the Telegonus tradition.1

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Apollodorus reports, as a variant ending to the Odyssey, that after the kinsfolk of the slain suitors accused Odysseus, Neoptolemus — king of the islands off Epirus and hoping to gain Cephallenia if Odysseus were removed — condemned him to exile. Odysseus went to Aetolia to Thoas son of Andraemon, married his daughter, and left a son Leontophonus by her before he died in old age.2

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Leontophonus — art, artifacts and echoes.

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