Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Laërtes (/leɪˈɜrtiːz/; Greek: Λαέρτης Laértēs) was the son of Arcesius and Chalcomedusa. He was the father of Odysseus (who was thus called Laertiádēs Λαερτιάδης son of Laertes) and Ctimene by his wife Anticlea daughter of the thief Autolycus. Laërtes was an Argonaut and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. Laërtes’s title was King of the Cephallenians which he presumably inherited from his father Arcesius and grandfather Cephalus.