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Laertes

also: Λαέρτης

Odysseus's aged father, who has withdrawn in grief to work his vineyard in the countryside rather than face the ruin of his son's house; reunited with Odysseus only in Book 24.

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The Iliad poem · 9 mentions
The Odyssey poem · 56 mentions

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