Editing Circe (section)

=== Post-Odyssey ===
Towards the end of Hesiod's ''[[Theogony]]'' (c. 700 BC), it is stated that Circe bore Odysseus three sons: Agrius (otherwise unknown); [[Latinus]]; and [[Telegonus (son of Odysseus)|Telegonus]], who ruled over the Tyrsenoi, that is the [[Etruscans]]. The ''[[Telegony]]'', an epic now lost, relates the later history of the last of these. Circe eventually informed her son who his absent father was and, when he set out to find Odysseus, gave him a poisoned spear. When Telegonus arrived in Ithaca, Odysseus was away in [[Thesprotia]], fighting the Brygi. Telegonus began to ravage the island; Odysseus came to defend his land. With the weapon Circe gave him, Telegonus killed his father unknowingly. Telegonus then brought back his father's corpse to Aeaea, together with [[Penelope]] and Odysseus' son by her, [[Telemachus]]. After burying Odysseus, Circe made the other three immortal.

Circe married Telemachus, and Telegonus married Penelope<ref>[[Cinaethon of Sparta]], ''[[Telegony]]'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm#chap80 summary]</ref> by the advice of Athena.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#127 127]</ref> According to an alternative version depicted in [[Lycophron]]'s 3rd-century BC poem ''Alexandra'' (and [[John Tzetzes]]' [[scholia]] on it), Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus. Odysseus then gave Telemachus to Circe's daughter [[Cassiphone]] in marriage. Sometime later, Telemachus had a quarrel with his mother-in-law and killed her; Cassiphone then killed Telemachus to avenge her mother's death. On hearing of this, Odysseus died of grief.

[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]] (1.72.5) cites [[Xenagoras (historian)|Xenagoras]], the 2nd-century BC historian, as claiming that Odysseus and Circe had three different sons: [[Rhomos]], [[Anteias]], and [[Ardeias]], who respectively founded three cities called by their names: [[Rome]], [[Antium]], and [[Ardea, Lazio|Ardea]]. In the later 5th-century CE epic ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', its author [[Nonnus]] mentions Phaunus, Circe's son by the sea god [[Poseidon]].<ref>Timothy Peter Wiseman, ''Remus: A Roman Myth'', Cambridge University 1995, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7LPNHRUlWacC&pg=PA47 pp. 47–48].</ref><ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' 13.328 ff.</ref>