TELEGONUS

in Greek mythology, especially the Telagonia of Eugamon of Cyrene, the son of the hero Odysseus by the sorceress Circe. Telegonus went to Ithaca in search of his father, whom he killed unwittingly. His spear had been tipped with the point of a stingray, thus fulfilling the prophecy in the Odyssey that death would come to Odysseus from the sea. Telegonus then married Penelope, Odysseus' widow.