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Definition of Telegony

Telegony
Telegony Te*leg"o*ny, n. [Gr. th^le far + root of Gr. ? to be born.] (Biol.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. -- Te*leg"o*nous, a.

Meaning of Telegony from wikipedia

- The Telegony (Ancient Gr****: Τηλεγόνεια, romanized: Tēlegóneia; Latin: Telegonia) is a lost ancient Gr**** epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by...
- Telegony is a largely discredited theory of heredity holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent; thus...
- and he and Telemachus bring swift and bloody death to the suitors. The Telegony was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus...
- Epics: the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony. Though these poems survive only in fragments, their content is known from...
- Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey...
- (Arctinus of Miletus) Little Iliad (Lesches) Iliupersis (Arctinus of Miletus) Nostoi (Agias/Eumelus of Corinth) Odyssey (Homer) Telegony (Eugammon of Cyrene)...
- by Telegonus. The story of Telegonus meeting his father was told in the Telegony, an early Gr**** epic that does not survive except in a summary, but that...
- and Telegonus, who ruled over the Tyrsenoi, that is the Etruscans. The Telegony, an epic now lost, relates the later history of the last of these. Circe...
- crossed a zebra stallion with pony mares to investigate the theory of telegony, or paternal impression. In The Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin...
- King Telephus of Mysia. The last poem in the Epic Cycle is called the Telegony, and is now lost. According to remaining fragments, it told the story of...