Anticlée

In the Greek Mythology, Anticlée or Anticleia are the mother of Ulysses. Girl of Autolycos and Mnestra, it becomes queen of Ithaque by her marriage with Laërte, king of Ithaque and has of him a girl, Ctimène.

Myth

At the time of a visit, Sisiphe, king of Corinth, éprit of the young queen. She gives him a child, Ulysses, who must achieve later celebrates it Odyssée.

At the time of the Odyssey of Ulysses, Anticlée then old cannot support any more the absence of his/her son whom she believes dead and refuses to have to cry her child over her tomb. She commits suicide while drowning in the sea.

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