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jules on April 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to leave academia (for science PhDs)

tele = far

machos = battle

Perhaps it means that he was far away from the battle or it means that he battles from afar? The latter would seem a better fit for Odysseus himself.

telemachos on April 5, 2012 [–]

You said it much more succinctly than I did. He "battles from afar" - that is with a bow - hits it on the head. It would not have been so unusual for a son to be named for an excellence of his father.

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