TY - BOOK ID - 82941712 TI - Telemachus, son of Ulysses AU - Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe AU - -Riley, Patrick PY - 1994 SN - 052145042X 0521456622 1139170643 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Education of princes KW - Princes KW - Telemachus (Greek mythology) KW - #GROL:SEMI-32-05.3 KW - #GROL:SEMI-32<08> Camb KW - Royalty KW - Courts and courtiers KW - Fiction KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Telemachus KW - Fiction. KW - Telèmac KW - Telemach KW - Telemachos KW - Telémaco KW - Telemah KW - Telemaĥo KW - Tēlemakhos, KW - Télemakhosz KW - Telemakkos KW - Telemako KW - Telemakos KW - Télémaque KW - Τηλεμαχος KW - טלמאכוס KW - テーレマコス KW - 텔레마코스 KW - Телемах KW - Тэлемах KW - تليماخوس KW - تلماخوس UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:82941712 AB - Fénelon's Telemachus (1699) is, alongside Bossuet's Politics, the most important work of political theory of the grand siècle in France. It was also the most widely read work of the time, influencing Montesquieu and Rousseau in its attempt to combine monarchism with republican virtues. Fénelon tells of the moral and political education of Telemachus, young son of Ulysses, by his tutor Mentor (the goddess Minerva in disguise). Telemachus visits every corner of the Mediterranean world and learns patience, courage, modesty and simplicity, the qualities he will need when he succeeds Ulysses as King of Ithaca. It is the story of the transformation of an egoistic young man into a model ruler, and is meant (among other things) as a commentary on the bellicosity and luxuriousness of Louis XIV. The present English edition follows closely that of Tobias Smollett published in 1776. ER -