Fragment #1—Proclus, Chrestomathia, ii: After the _Returns_ comes the
_Odyssey_ of Homer, and then the _Telegony_ in two books by Eugammon of
Cyrene, which contain the following matters. The suitors of Penelope
are buried by their kinsmen, and Odysseus, after sacrificing to the
Nymphs, sails to Elis to inspect his herds. He is entertained there by
Polyxenus and receives a mixing bowl as a gift; the story of Trophonius
and Agamedes and Augeas then follows. He next sails back to Ithaca and
performs the sacrifices ordered by Teiresias, and then goes to
Thesprotis where he marries Callidice, queen of the Thesprotians. A war
then breaks out between the Thesprotians, led by Odysseus, and the
Brygi. Ares routs the army of Odysseus and Athena engages with Ares,
until Apollo separates them. After the death of Callidice Polypoetes,
the son of Odysseus, succeeds to the kingdom, while Odysseus himself
returns to Ithaca. In the meantime Telegonus, while travelling in
search of his father, lands on Ithaca and ravages the island: Odysseus
comes out to defend his country, but is killed by his son unwittingly.
Telegonus, on learning his mistake, transports his father’s body with
Penelope and Telemachus to his mother’s island, where Circe makes them
immortal, and Telegonus marries Penelope, and Telemachus Circe.
Fragment #2—Eustathias, 1796. 35: The author of the _Telegony_, a
Cyrenaean, relates that Odysseus had by Calypso a son Telegonus or
Teledamus, and by Penelope Telemachus and Acusilaus.