In Apollodorus' Epitome, the son whom Penelope bore to Odysseus on Ithaca while he was absent reigning in Thesprotia — a child Homer never names beside Telemachus.1
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Apollodorus says that when Odysseus, after Callidice's death, handed the Thesprotian kingdom to Polypoetes and returned to Ithaca, he found Poliporthes, whom Penelope had borne to him in his absence.2⚖
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story