What do Steve Irwin and the legendary voyager have in common?
They were both fatally impaled upon a sting-ray barb.
The September 2006 death of Steve Irwin was, perhaps, no less tragic than that of Odysseus, who according to the lost Telegony, perished at the hands of his son by the witch Circe, Telegonus. The battle between father and son, neither who recognized the other, culminated in Odysseus's death on the his son's spear point--a sting-ray barb.
That bit of Classical lore is, again, from M.L. West's Indo-European Poetry and Myth.
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