Editing Telemachus (section)

==Later classical authors==
From the ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'': In the post-Homeric traditions, we read that Palamedes, when endeavouring to persuade Odysseus to join the Greeks against Troy, and the latter feigned idiocy, placed the infant Telemachus before the plough with which Odysseus was ploughing.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 95; [[Servius the Grammarian|Servius]] on [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', 2.81; [[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 384; [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], ''Varia Historia'' 8.12.</ref>

In ''[[Contest of Homer and Hesiod]]'', it is alleged that the Roman Emperor [[Hadrian]] asked the [[Delphic Oracle]] about Homer's birthplace and parentage. The Oracle replied that Homer came from Ithaca and that Telemachus was his father by [[Epicasta]], daughter of Nestor.<ref>[http://mcllibrary.org/Hesiod/homrhes.html "Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203182529/http://mcllibrary.org/Hesiod/homrhes.html |date=2019-12-03 }} (''[[Contest of Homer and Hesiod]]'')</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Herbert William|last=Parke|title=Greek Oracles|year=1967|pages=136–137 citing the ''[[Contest of Homer and Hesiod|Certamen]]'', 12}}</ref>

According to [[Aristotle]] and [[Dictys of Crete]], Telemachus married [[Nausicaa]], King Alcinous's daughter, and fathered a son named [[Persepolis (mythology)|Perseptolis]] or [[Poliporthes|Ptoliporthus]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allan |first=Arlene |date=2010 |title=The Authority of Telemachus |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/ca/article-abstract/33/1/31/25729/The-Authority-of-Telemachus |journal=Classical Antiquity |language=en |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=14–30 |doi=10.1525/CA.2014.33.1.31}}</ref>

[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] says that the mother was [[Polycaste]], the daughter of [[Nestor (mythology)|Nestor]].<ref>''Brill's New Pauly'' [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/*-e915060 s.v. Perseptolis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429150156/https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/*-e915060 |date=2022-04-29 }}.</ref> Others relate that he became the father of [[Latinus]] by Circe.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 127; cf. Telegonus.</ref> He is also said to have had a daughter called Roma, who married [[Aeneas]].<ref>''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]''; [[Servius the Grammarian|Servius]] on [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', 1.273.</ref>

Servius makes Telemachus the founder of the town of [[Clusium]] in Etruria.<ref>{{Cite DGRBM|author=LS|title=Telemachus|volume=III|page=989|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ACL3129.0003.001/997?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=Telemachus|short=}}</ref><ref>[[Servius the Grammarian|Servius]] on [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', 10.167.</ref>