Telegony
It was part of the Epic Cycle of poems that recounted the myths of the Trojan War as well as the events that led up to and followed it.[10] He makes a voyage to Elis, where he visits an otherwise unknown figure Polyxenos, who gives him a bowl depicting the story of Trophonius.In a detail inserted into the account in the Epitome of the Bibliotheke, she gives him a supernatural spear to defend himself, which is tipped with the sting of a poisonous stingray and was made by the god Hephaestus.As is customary for Homeric heroes in unfriendly land, he commits piracy, and unwittingly begins stealing Odysseus' cattle.But after a quarrell with Circe, Telemachus slew his mother-in-law, and in rage Cassiphone killed him, avenging thus the murder of her mother.In Dante's Divine Comedy, in the eighth bolgia of the Inferno,[19] Dante and his guide meet Ulisse among the false counsellors, and receive a variant accounting of Ulisse's death "from the sea", in a five-month journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules, that has ended in a whirlpool drowning as the mariners approach the mountain of Purgatory.Divine intervention, a death and multiple weddings at the end all assorted easily with the conventions of opera seria.