Laertes

Family: Greek · Role: father of Ulysses · First appears: BOOK III

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Laertes) · The Odyssey (as Laertes) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Laërtes) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Laertes)

BOOK III

• child: Ulysses “He is Ulysses, a man of great craft, son of Laertes.”

BOOK IV

• child: Ulysses “Ulysses glared at him and answered, “Son of Atreus, what are you talking about? How can you say that we are slack? When the Achaeans are in full fight with the Trojans, you shall see, if you care to do so, that the father of Telemachus will join battle with the foremost of them.”

BOOK IX

• child: Ulysses “Ulysses, noble son of Laertes”

BOOK X

• child: Ulysses “Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, take it not amiss, for the Achaeans are in great straits.”

BOOK XIX

• child: Ulysses “King Agamemnon will bring out the gifts in presence of the assembly”

BOOK XXIII

• child: Ulysses “Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall either lift me, or I you, and let Jove settle it between us.”

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