The New International Encyclopædia/Telegonus

TELEG′ONUS (Lat., from Gk. Τηλέγονος). The son of Odysseus by Circe. Having been sent to Ithaca to find his father, he failed to recognize him in combat and slew him, afterwards taking the body home, together with Telemachus and Penelope, whom he married. He was looked upon as the founder of Tusculum and Præneste, and, through his daughter Mamilia, as the ancestor of the Roman Mamilii. His story is the theme of the Telegonia. See Trojan War.