The Epic Cycle tells, collectively, the beginnings of the war (Cypria), the wrath of Akhilleus in the siege's tenth year (Iliad), the events that occurred between Hektor's death and the Greeks' return home (Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou persis, and the Nosti), Odysseus's ten-year journey to Ithaka (Odyssey), and his adventures following the Odyssey (
Telegony).
Since the 1980s Stanzel has also increasingly turned to other fields, with work on national stereotypes (Europaer), on the Hungarian connections of Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses, and on procreation from a distance ("
Telegony").
Weininger's comments on what biology has to say on gender identity are pertinent, and his views on homosexuality even progressive, while his inversion of Freud's model for hysteria and his attempt to back up the abandoned scientific theory of
telegony by reference to literary texts as evidence are informed, as Sengoopta plausibly argues, by his intention to prove Woman as worthless.
Ritvo makes much of the concept of "
telegony": that the father of a female's first offspring influences the characteristics of all subsequent offspring.
Telegony was the idea that the qualities and traits of a primary male were passed on to succeeding offspring via the mother, despite impregnation by a second father.