According to Greek legend, who was the father of Telemachus?
Telemachus Telemachus Telemachus ( ; Ancient Greek: Τηλέμαχος "Tēlemakhos", literally "far-fighter") is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's "Odyssey". The first four books of the "Odyssey" focus on Telemachus's journeys in search of news about his father, who has yet to return home from the Trojan War, and are traditionally given the title the "Telemachy". Telemachus's name in Greek means "far from battle", or perhaps "fighting from afar", as a bowman does. In Homer's "Odyssey", Telemachus, under the instructions of Athena (who accompanies him during the quest), spends the first
Saint Telemachus silence. There is also an alternate form of the story, in which Telemachus stood up in the amphitheatre and told the assembly to stop worshipping idols and offering sacrifices to the gods. Upon hearing this statement, the prefect of the city is said by this source to have ordered the gladiators to kill Telemachus, and they promptly did so. Saint Telemachus Saint Telemachus (also Almachus or Almachius) was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret, tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and was stoned to death by the crowd. The Christian Emperor Honorius, however,