In Greek mythology, Laërtes (Greek: Λαέρτης) was the son of Arcesius and Chalcomedusa. He was father of Odysseus (who was thus called Λαερτιάδης) and Ctimene by his wife Anticlea, daughter of the thief Autolycus. Laërtes was an Argonaut and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. Laërtes' title was King of the Cephallenians, which he presumably inherited from his father Arcesius and grandfather Cephalus. His realm included Ithaca and surrounding islands, and perhaps the neighboring part of the mainland. Laertes and Ophelia Laertes is a character from William Shakespeares play, Hamlet. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... In Greek mythology, Arcesius, or Arkêsios, was the King of Ithaca and father of Laertes. ... In Greek mythology, Arcesius, or Arkêsios, also spelled Arceisius, was the son of Cephalus, and king in Ithaca. ... For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, Anticlea, (Ἀντίκλεια), was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea, and mother of Odysseus or Ulysses by Laërtes (though some say by Sisyphus). ... In Greek mythology, Autolycus (Greek - Lone Wolf) was the son of Chione and Hermes. ... The Argo, by Lorenzo Costa In Greek mythology, the Argonauts (Ancient Greek: ) were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece. ... The Calydonian Hunt shown on a Roman frieze (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) The Calydonian Boar is one of a genre of chthonic monsters in Greek mythology, each set in a specific locale, which must be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. ... Acephali (from a-, without, and kephale, head) is a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader; and in particular to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter Mongus, the patriarch of Alexandria, and remained... Cephalus and Aurora, by Nicolas Poussin (c. ... For other places or objects named Ithaca, see Ithaca (disambiguation). ...

Another version of the story says that he was not Odysseus' real father, and that Sisyphus, who had seduced Anticlea, was.^[1] For the genus of dung beetle, see Sisyphus (beetle). ...

It was Laërtes who trained Odysseus in husbandry. After Odysseus and Telemachus routed the suitors that had been threatening his wife, Penelope, some of the suitors' surviving relatives confronted them. Athena infused vigor into Laértes, so he could help Odysseus by killing Eupeithes, father of Antinous. In Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey, Odysseus refers to him as King Allwoes.^[2] Slaughter of the suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus, Campanian red-figure bell-krater, ca. ... The Vatican Penelope: a Roman marble copy of an Early Classical 6th-century Greek work (Vatican Museums) For other uses, see Penelope (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Athena (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, Eupeithês was the father of Antinous, the leader of the suitors of Penelope. ... Antinous or Antinoös (Greek: ) born circa 110 or 111 CE, died 130 CE), was the lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian Bust of Antinous in the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome // He was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what... For other persons named Robert Fitzgerald, see Robert Fitzgerald (disambiguation). ... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Odyssey (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Laertes is a character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
• Laertes was the name of a character in Hamlet.
• There is also an ancient Greek city called Laertes, currently in Antalya, Turkey.

Goethe redirects here. ... Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship (in German, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) is the second novel by Goethe, published in 1795. ... Laertes and Ophelia Laertes is a character from William Shakespeares play, Hamlet. ... For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... This article is mostly about the Antalya City; for the province, see Antalya Province. ...

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