 His realm included Ithaca and surrounding islands, and perhaps even the neighboring part of the mainland of other Greek city-states.Laertes was the son of Arcesius and Chalcomedusa and the father of Odysseus (who was thus called "Laertiádēs", Λαερτιάδης, "son of Laertes") and Ctimene by his wife Anticlea, daughter of the thief Autolycus.Another account says that Laertes was not Odysseus's true father; rather, it was Sisyphus, who had seduced Anticlea.