10 Reasons Greek Mythology Is Messed Up

So the war was over. Menelaus returned home along with his wife. Agamemnon did the same, but there he was killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, triggering the antecedent of the Electra complex.

For his part, Ulysses didn’t find his comeback so smooth. He had brief and not-so-brief encounters with the Cicones, the Cyclops Polyphemus, the sirens, the Laestrygonians and even the overly attached nymph Calypso. He was given a bag containing all the winds, except the one that could bring him home. He lost all his men when they ate the wrong cattle. But not everything was pain and yearning in the Odyssey (apparently).

Odysseus and his crew found Aeaea, the island where the sorceress Circe lived. After a treacherous welcome, he was able to free his men from a spell that had turned them into pigs and made sure the sorceress wouldn’t fool with them anymore. Thereafter, he couldn’t help noticing the lavish dinner on the table, said a comfortable “Why not?” to himself and spent a whole year there, eating, drinking, carousing, and satisfying Circe’s exaggerated sexual appetite. As a result, they had a child: Telegonus.

Years later, Telegonus murdered Ulysses inadvertently while searching for him. Realizing what he'd done, he took his body, together with Penelope and Telemachus (wife and son of the deceased), to Aeaea, where Circe made them immortal. Then, Telegonus married Penelope and Telemachus married Circe. You know, the fathers-sons, mothers-sons usual stuff.