Editing Telegonus

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'''Telegonus'''  ({{IPAc-en|t|ə|ˈ|l|ɛ|ɡ|ə|n|ə|s}}; [[Ancient Greek]]: Τηλέγονος means "born afar") is the name shared by three different characters in [[Greek mythology]].

* Telegonus, a king of [[Egypt]] who was sometimes said to have married the [[nymph]] [[Io (mythology)|Io]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Telegonus 2.1.3]</ref>
* Telegonus, a [[Thracians|Thracian]] son of [[Proteus]]<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.9&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Telegonus 2.5.9]</ref> by [[Torone (mythology)|Torone]] ([[Torone (mythology)|Chrysonoe]]) of [[Phlegra (mythology)|Phlegra]],<ref>[[Lycophron]], 116; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] on Lycophron, 115; [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#T629.10 Torōnē]''</ref> daughter of King [[Cleitus (mythology)|Cleitus]] of [[Sithones]].<ref>[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' [https://topostext.org/work/489#10 10] & [https://topostext.org/work/489#32 32]</ref> He was the brother of [[Polygonus (mythology)|Polygonus]] ([[Tmolus (father of Tantalus)|Tmolus]]<ref>Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' 2.321; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 124</ref>). Because of Telegonus' and his brother's great violence towards strangers, Proteus prayed to their grandsire Poseidon to carry him back to [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. They met their demise when they challenged [[Heracles]] to wrestle at the behest of [[Hera]] but lost their life in the battle.<ref>Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' 2.320</ref>
* [[Telegonus (son of Odysseus)|Telegonus]], the youngest son of [[Circe]] and [[Odysseus]].<ref>Apollodorus, [[Epitome]] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.7.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.9&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Telegonus#note2 7.16]</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]]'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*[[Lycophron]], ''The Alexandra''  translated by Alexander William Mair. Loeb Classical Library Volume 129. London: William Heinemann, 1921. [https://topostext.org/work/128 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*Lycophron, ''Alexandra'' translated by A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0484 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*[[John Tzetzes]], ''Book of Histories,'' Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades1.html Online version at theio.com]
*[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,'' edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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