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FTHIA (Ancient city) LARISSA
The only Nereid whom Zeus is heard of as favouring is the eldest, Thetis. He never enjoyed her: Themis warned Zeus and Poseidon that Thetis was destined to bear a son stronger than his father; they therefore retired and gave her in marriage to a mortal, Peleus. Others said that Thetis herself, in gratitude to Hera who had reared her, resisted Zeus, who in anger gave her to a mortal.
Achilles' immortal horses who were given to Peleus as a wedding gift
from the gods.
When Achilles went to fight in Troy
he took them with him and lent then to Patroclus. The horses mourned Patroclus
bitterly when he died, and Zeus took pity on them and gave them strength to run
back to the Greek camp.
Achilles then reproached them for not protecting his friend but Xanthus
old him it was the will of the gods, since Hector had Apollo by his side and that
Achilles soon would join Patroclus. The Furies then struck Xanthus dumb.
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ICHALIA (Ancient city) TRIKALA
Son of Eurytus of Oechalia and brother of Iole, who was slain by Heracles, while searching for his lost horses, which were hidden by the son of Zeus. During this search, he had met Odysseus in Messenia in the house of Ortilochus, to whom he gave his bow as a friendship gift and Odysseus gave him his sword and spear (Od. 21.14 etc.).
The Struggle for the Delphic Tripod
After completing his twelve labors, Hercules hit the road, once again.
Somehow or another, Hercules caught wind that Eurytus, the prince of Oechalia,
was offering his beautiful daughter, Iole, as a bride prize to any man who could
best him and his sons in an archery contest. Upon hearing this, Hercules traveled
to Oechalia and competed against Eurytus and his sons. Legend has it that Eurytus
was the man who first schooled Hercules in the use of the bow. His was a challenge
that pitted student against teacher. It should come as no surprise that Hercules
defeated his fellow contestants with ease.
When it came time, however, for Eurytus to hand over Iole to Hercules,
as his bride, Eurytus refused. In this decision he was supported by all of his
sons except Iphytus. One may wonder why a prince would deny the strongest man
in the world his daughter in marriage. For Eurytus, the reasoning was simple:
he would not allow his beloved daughter to marry (and eventually have children
with) a man who had a history of murdering his sons in a fit of rage (remember
that whole Megara
fiasco?), for fear that the same fate would befall his own grandchildren.
Crestfallen and dismayed, Hercules left Oechalia. Shortly after Hercules'
departure, some mares (or cattle, depending on the storyteller) were stolen by
Autolycus from a local man. Eurytus instantly thought that Hercules was the culprit.
Iphytus, however, refused to believe that Hercules was the thief and set out to
pay him a visit at Tiryns (another version suggests Iphytus went to Tiryns to
look for the cattle himself). Hercules received Iphytus in good cheer and the
two men passed the time entertaining each other. Unfortunately for Iphytus, however,
during the visit something went awry, and Hercules, in another fit of madness,
hurled Iphytus to his death from the top of the walls of Tiryns.
Following the murder of Iphytus, Hercules contracted a terrible disease,
as a result of his violent outburst. Hercules then journeyed to the oracle at
Delphi, in hopes that the priestess there would advise him on how to cure himself.
But Hercules was to be disappointed. When he questioned the Pythian priestess,
she was unable to answer him in oracles. Hercules, outraged at priestesses unwillingness
to help, began tearing the temple apart. When Hercules came upon the Delphic tripod,
he started to make off with it, thinking that he would establish an oracle of
his own.
Apollo, however, was not about to let Hercules carry off the prized
tripod from his sacred site. He began to wrestle with Hercules over its possession;
Apollo was supported by his sister, Artemis, while Hercules was supported by his
patron, Athena. In the midst of their tug-of-war contest, Zeus dropped in and
tried to break up the feuding brothers (Apollo and Hercules are, after all, half-brothers
by Zeus). And as parents are often forced to do, Zeus decided that it would be
best to separate the brothers, hurling one of his mighty thunderbolts between
them. After the two siblings were pried apart, Hercules finally received an oracle,
instructing him to be sold into slavery for a year, and to pay Eurytus in compensation
for the loss of his son. The tripod remained at Delphi and Hermes sold Hercules
to Omphale, Queen of Lydia, for whom he performed women's work for his year of
servitude.
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FTHIA (Ancient city) LARISSA
Homer refers to Phthia under the name Hellas (Od. 4.726, 816). The country (later Phthiotis) was named after the city of Phthia (Il. 1.155, 2.683, 9.355, Od. 11.396). It was the seat of Achilles and was also called "the city of the Myrmidons" (Od. 4.9).
MAGNESIA (Ancient area) THESSALIA
Aloeus was the son of Poseidon by Canace. Iphimedeia (Od. 11.305), his first wife, bore to him Otus and Ephialtes (Il. 5.386).
Eeriboea, daughter of Hermes, was his second wife (Il. 5.389).
Aloeus. The son of Poseidon and Canace, who married Iphimedia, the daughter of Tripos. His wife was beloved by Poseidon, by whom she had two sons, Otus and Ephialtes, who are usually called the Aloadae, from their reputed father Aloeus.
FTHIA (Ancient city) LARISSA
Goddess of dispute and quarrel, who was not invited to Peleus wedding
with Thetis, causing her to ruin the party and the peace between men and gods
by making a golden apple with the inscription “to the most beautiful”
which she threw into the banquet. Because Hera, Athena and Aphrodite all thought
they were the most beautiful, a brawl started, leading to the Trojan War.
Eris was sometimes called the Daughter of the Night.
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PELION (Mountain) MAGNESSIA
According to Homer, the Centaurs were wild and "mountain-dwelling" people of Thessaly (Il. 1.268, 11.832).
Centauri (Kentauroi) a Thessalian race fabled to have been half men, half horses.
The Centaurs and Lapithae are two mythical tribes, which are always mentioned
together. The former are spoken of twice in the Iliad under the appellation of
"wildcreatures" (Pheres), and once under their proper name. We also
find the name Kentauroi in the Odyssey. They seem to have been a rude mountain-tribe,
dwelling on and about Mount Pelion. It is very doubtful whether Homer and Hesiod
conceived them to be of a mingled form, as they were subsequently represented.
In the fight of the Centaurs and Lapithae depicted on the shield of Heracles,
the latter appear in panoply fighting with spears, while the former wield pine
clubs. Pindar is the earliest poet extant who expressly describes them as semiferine.
According to him (Pyth. ii. 78 foll.), the offspring of Ixion and the cloud, was
a son named Centaurus, who, when grown up, wandered about the foot of Mount Pelion,
where he united with the Magnesian mares, who brought forth the Centaurs -a race
partaking of the form of both parents, their lower parts resembling their dams,
and their upper parts their sire. The common account makes the Centaurs to have
been the immediate offspring of Ixion and the cloud. By his wife Dia, Ixion had
a son named Pirithous, who married Hippodamia, daughter of Adrastus, king of Argos.
The chiefs of his own tribe, the Lapithae, were all invited to the wedding, as
were also the Centaurs, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of Pelion. Theseus, Nestor
, and other strangers were likewise present. At the feast, Eurytion, one of the
Centaurs, becoming intoxicated with the wine, attempted to offer violence to the
bride; the other Centaurs followed his example, and a dreadful conflict arose,
in which several of them were slain. The Centaurs were finally driven from Pelion,
and obliged to retire to other regions.
According to the earliest version of this legend, Eurytion, the Centaur,
being invited to the mansion of Pirithous, became intoxicated, and behaved so
ill to the women that the heroes rose, and, dragging him to the door, cut off
his ears and nose, which was the occasion of the "strife between the Centaurs
and men" ( Od.xxi. 295 foll.). When Heracles was on his way to hunt the Erymanthian
boar, he was entertained by the Centaur Pholus; and this gave rise to a conflict
between him and the other Centaurs, which terminated in the total discomfiture
of the latter.
The most celebrated of the Centaurs was Chiron, the son of Cronus
by the nymph Philyra.
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Centauri (Kentauroi), that is, the bullkillers, are according to the earliest accounts a race of men who inhabited the mountains and forests of Thessaly. They are described as leading a rude and savage life, occasionally carrying off the women of their neighbours, as covered with hair and ranging over their mountains like animals. But they were not altogether unacquainted with the useful arts, as in the case of Cheiron (Hom. Il. i. 268, ii. 743, in which passages they are called pheres, that is, Deres, Od. xxi. 295, &c.; Hesiod. Scut. Herc. 104, &c.). Now, in these earliest accounts, the centaurs appear merely as a sort of gigantic, savage, or animal-like beings; whereas, in later writers, they are described as monsters (hippocentaurs), whose bodies were partly human and partly those of horses. This strange mixture of the human form with that of a horse is accounted for, in the later traditions, by the history of their origin. Ixion, it is said, begot by a cloud Centaurus, a being hated by gods and men, who begot the hippocentaurs on mount Pelion, by mixing with Magnesian mares (Pind. Pyth. ii. 80, &c.). According to Diodorus (iv. 69; comp. Hygin. Fab. 33), the centaurs were the sons of Ixion himself by a cloud; they were brought up by the nymphs of Pelion, and begot the Hippocentaurs by mares. Others again relate, that the centaurs were the offspring of Ixion and his mares; or that Zeus, metamorphosed into a horse, begot them by Dia, the wife of Ixion (Serv. ad Aen. viii. 293; Nonn. Dionys. xvi. 240, xiv. 193). From these accounts it appears, that the ancient centaurs and the later hippocentaurs were two distinct classes of beings, although the name of centaurs is applied to both by ancient as well as modern writers.
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A Centaur, who was a son of Cronus by Philyra and well-known for his medical and augural competence. He was also the teacher of Achilles (Il. 4.219, 11.831, 16.143, 19.390).
Chiron (Cheiron). The most celebrated of the Centaurs, and son of Cronos and the nymph Philyra. Dreading the jealousy of his wife, Rhea, the god is said to have transformed Philyra into a mare, and himself into a steed; and the offspring of this union was Chiron, half man and half horse. This legend first appeared in the poem of the Gigantomachia, and it is also noticed by Pindar (Pyth. iii. 1, foll.). Probably the praise of Chiron by Homer (Il.xi. 832), for his love of justice, led to the view of him as the offspring of the god who ruled over the golden race of men. To Chiron was intrusted the rearing and educating of Iason and his son Medeus, Heracles, Aesculapius, and Achilles. Besides his knowledge of the musical art, which he imparted to his heroic pupils, he was also skilled in surgery, which he taught to the last two of this number. In the contest between Heracles and the Centaurs, Chiron was accidentally wounded in the knee by one of the arrows of the hero. Grieved at this unhappy event, Heracles ran up, drew out the arrow, and applied to the wound a remedy given by Chiron himself. But in vain; the venom of the hydra was not to be overcome. Chiron retired to his cave longing to die, but unable on account of his immortality, till, on his expressing his willingness to die for Prometheus, he was released by death from his misery. According to another account, he was, on his prayer to Zeus for relief, raised to the sky and made the constellation of Sagittarius. Chiron was the husband of Nais or Chariclo, and their daughter Eudeis was the mother of Peleus ( Apollod.xiii. 12). In art, Chiron is represented as of a noble and intellectual cast of countenance; while the other Centaurs exhibit brutal and sensual traits.
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Cheiron, the wisest and justest of all the centaurs (Hom. Il. xi. 831). He was the instructor of Achilles, whose father Peleus was a friend and relative of Cheiron, and received at his wedding with Thetis the heavy lance which was subsequently used by Achilles (Il. xvi. 143, xix. 390). According to Apollodorus (i. 2.4), Cheiron was the son of Cronus and Philyra. He lived on mount Pelion, from which he, like the other centaurs, was expelled by the Lapithae; but sacrifices were offered to him there by the Magnesians until a very late period, and the family of the Cheironidae in that neighbourhood, who were distinguished for their knowledge of medicine, were regarded as his descendants (Plut. Sympos. iii. 1). Cheiron himself had been instructed by Apollo and Artemis, and was renowned for his skill in hunting, medicine, music, gymnastics, and the art of prophecy (Xen. Cyneg. 1; Philostr. Her. 9, Icon. ii. 2; Pind. Pyth. ix. 65). All the most distinguished heroes of Grecian story are, like Achilles, described as the pupils of Cheiron in these arts. His friendship with Peleus, who was his grandson, is particularly celebrated. Cheiron saved him from the hands of the other centaurs, who were on the point of killing him, and he also restored to him the sword which Acastus had concealed (Apollod. iii. 13.3, &c.). Cheiron further informed him in what manner he might gain possession of Thetis, who was doomed to marry a mortal. He is also connected with the story of the Argonauts, whom he received kindly when they came to his residence on their voyage, for many of the heroes were his friends and pupils (Apollon. Rhod. i. 554; Orph. Argon. 375, &c.). Heracles too was connected with him by friendship; but one of the poisoned arrows of this hero was nevertheless the cause of his death, for during his struggle with the Erymanthian boar, Heracles became involved in a fight with the centaurs, who fled to Cheiron, in the neighbourhood of Malea. Heracles shot at then, and one of his arrows struck Cheiron, who, although immortal, would not live any longer, and gave his immortality to Prometheus. According to others, Cheiron, in looking at one of the arrows, dropped it on his foot, and wounded himself (Ovid. Fast. v. 397; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 38). Zeus placed Cheiron among the stars. He had been married to Nais or Chamclo, [p. 693] and his daughter Endeis was the mother of Pelcus (Apollod. iii. 12.6). Cheiron is the noblest specimen of a combination of the human and animal forms in the ancient works of art; for while the centaurs generally express the sensual and savage features of a man combined with the strength and swiftness of a horse, Cheiron, who possesses the latter likewise, combines with it a mild wisdom. He was represented on the Amyclaean throne of Apollo, and on the chest of Cypselus (Paus. iii. 18.7, v. 19.2). Some representations of him are still extant, in which young Achilles or Erotes are riding on his back.
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Chariclo, the wife of the centaur Cheiron, and mother of Carystus. She was a daughter of Apollo, and according to others of Perses or of Oceanus. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyilh. iv. 181; Ov. Met. ii. 636.)
A centaur, who carried off the wife of Peirithous (Od. 21.295, also see Paus. 5,10, 8).
Eurytion, a centaur who took to flight during the fight of Heracles with the centaurs; but he was afterwards killed by Heracles in the dominions of Dexamenus, whose daughter Eurytion was on the point of making his wife. (Apollod. ii. 5.4, &c.; comp. Diod. iv. 33; Hygin. Fab. 31). Two other mythical personages of this name are mentioned by Apollodorus (ii. 5.10) and Virgil. (Aen. v. 495, &c.)
TRIKKI (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Asclepius is not a god in the Iliad but a great doctor and the father of Machaon and Podaleirius, who were the leaders of Tricca, Ithome and Oechalia in the Trojan War (Il. 2.731, 4.194, 11.518). He is mentioned by the posterity as the god of medicine and son of Apollo and Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas. According to ancient myths, Asclepius was born in Tricca and not in Epidaurus.
Editor's note: Asclepius' biographies and related information can be found in His Sanctuary in Epidauros.
FTHIA (Ancient city) LARISSA
A Myrmidon, comrade of Achilles (Il. 19.392, 24.472).
Son of Achilles and Deidamia (see Scyros island )
Eudorus (Eudoros), a son of Hermes and Polymele, was brought up by his grandfather Phylas. He was one of the five leaders of the Myrmidones under Achilles, who sent him out to accompany Patroclus, and to prevent the latter from venturing too far; but Eudorus was slain by Pyraechmus. (Hom. Il. xvi. 179, &c.; Eustath. ad Hom.)
MAGNESIA (Ancient area) THESSALIA
He was slain by Hector (Il. 5.705).
ARGISSA (Ancient city) LARISSA
He was the son of Peirithous and Hippodameia, who participated in the Trojan War with 40 ships as the leader of the thessalian cities of Argissa, Gyrtone, Orthe, Elone and Oloosson (Il. 2.740, 12.129, 23.836).
FERES (Ancient city) RIGAS FERAIOS
He was son of Admetus and Alcestis and the leader of the Thessalians from Pherae, Boebe, Glaphyrae and Iolcus with 11 ships (Il. 2.714). His wife was Iphthime, daughter of Icarius and sister of Penelope (Od. 4.797)
Eumelus, (Eumelos), a son of Admetus and Alcestis, who went with eleven ships and warriors from Pherae, Boebe, Glaphyrae, and Iaolcus to Troy. He was distinguished for his excellent horses, which had once been under the care of Apollo, and with which Eumelus would have gained the prize at the funeral games of Patroclus, if his chariot had not been broken. He was married to Iphthima, the daughter of Iearius. (Hom. Il. ii. 711, &c. 764, xxiii. 375, 536, Od. iv. 798; Strab. ix.)
Iphthime. A daughter of Icarius, and sister of Penelope. Athena assumed the appearance of Iphthime, when she appeared to the unfortunate mother of Telemachus. (Hom. Od. iv. 797.)
FTHIA (Ancient city) LARISSA
He was the son of Pyleus and Thetis, leader of the Myrmidons with 50 ships in the Trojan War (Il. 2.681, 16.168).
The horses of Achilles were called Xanthus and Balius and were born by Zephyrus and the Harpy Podarge (Il. 16.149). In the passage 19.405 of the Iliad, Hera gives human voice to Xanthus in order to presage the death of Achilles. Besides these two horses, the hero also had Pedasus (Il. 16.152).
Achilles. The famous son of Peleus, king of Phthiotis in Thessaly, by Thetis,
the sea-deity. According to Lycophron, Thetis became the mother of seven male
children by Peleus, six of whom she threw into the fire, because they were not
of the same nature with herself, and because the treatment she had received was
unworthy of her rank as a goddess. The scholiast on Homer, however, states, that
Thetis threw her children into the fire in order to ascertain whether they were
mortal or not, the goddess supposing that the fire would consume what was mortal
in their natures, while she would preserve what was immortal. The scholiast adds
that six of her children perished by this harsh experiment, and that she had,
in like manner, thrown the seventh, afterwards named Achilles, into the flames,
when Peleus, having beheld the deed, rescued his offspring from this perilous
situation. Tzetzes assigns a different motive to Thetis in the case of Achilles.
He makes her to have been desirous of conferring immortality upon him, and states
that with this view she anointed him with ambrosia during the day, and threw him
into fire at evening. Peleus, having discovered the goddess in the act of consigning
his child to the flames, cried out with alarm, whereupon Thetis, abandoning the
object she had in view, left the court of Peleus and rejoined the nymphs of the
ocean. Dictys Cretensis makes Peleus to have rescued Achilles from the fire before
any part of his body had been injured but the heel. What has thus far been stated
in relation to Achilles, with the single exception of the names of his parents,
Peleus and Thetis, is directly at variance with the authority of Homer, and must
therefore be regarded as a mere postHomeric fable. Equally at variance with the
account given by the bard is the more popular fiction that Thetis plunged her
son into the waters of the Styx, and by that immersion rendered the whole of his
body invulnerable, except the heel by which she held him. There are several passages
in the Iliad which plainly show that the poet does not ascribe to Achilles the
possession of any peculiar physical defence against danger.
The care of his education and training was intrusted, according to
the common authorities, to the centaur Chiron, and to Phoenix, son of Amyntor.
Homer specifically mentions Phoenix as his first instructor. Those, however, who
pay more regard in this case to the statements of other writers, make Chiron to
have had charge of Achilles first, and to have fed him on the marrow of wild animals;
according to Libanius, on that of lions. Calchas having predicted, when Achilles
had attained the age of nine years, that Troy could not be taken without him,
Thetis, well aware that her son, if he joined that expedition, was destined to
perish, sent him disguised in female attire to the court of Lycomedes, king of
the island of Scyros, for the purpose of being concealed there. At the court of
Lycomedes, he received the name of Pyrrha (Purra, Rufa), from his golden locks,
and became the father of Neoptolemus by Deidamia, one of the monarch's daughters.
In this state of concealment Achilles remained until discovered by Odysseus, who
came to the island in the disguise of a travelling merchant. The chieftain of
Ithaca offered, it seems, various articles of female attire for sale, and mingled
with them some pieces of armor. On a sudden blast being given with a trumpet,
Achilles discovered himself by seizing upon the arms. The young warrior then joined
the army against Troy. This account, however, of the concealment of Achilles is
contradicted by the express authority of Homer, who represents him as proceeding
directly to the Trojan war from the court of his father. ( Il.ix. 439.) The Greeks,
having made good their landing on the shores of Troas, proved so superior to the
enemy as to compel them to seek shelter within their walls. No sooner was this
done than the Greeks were forced to turn their principal attention to the means
of supporting their numerous forces. A part of the army was therefore sent to
cultivate the rich vales of the Thracian Chersonesus, then abandoned by their
inhabitants on account of the incursions of the barbarians from the interior.
But the Grecian army, being weakened by this separation of its force, could no
longer deter the Trojans from again taking the field, nor prevent succour and
supplies from being sent into the city. Thus the siege was protracted to the length
of ten years. During a great part of this time, Achilles was employed in lessening
the resources of Priam by the reduction of the tributary cities of Asia Minor.
With a fleet he ravaged the coasts of Mysia, made frequent disembarkations of
his forces, and succeeded eventually in destroying eleven cities. Among the spoils
of one, Achilles obtained the beautiful Briseis, while, at the taking of Thebe,
Chryseis, the daughter of Chryses, a priest of Apollo at Chrysa, became the prize
of Agamemnon. A pestilence shortly after appeared in the Grecian camp, and Calchas,
encouraged by the proffered protection of Achilles, ventured to attribute it to
Agamemnon's detention of the daughter of Chryses, whom her father had endeavored
to ransom, but in vain. The monarch, although deeply offended, was compelled at
last to surrender his captive; but, as an act of retaliation, and to testify his
resentment, he deprived Achilles of Briseis. Hence arose "the anger of the
son of Peleus", on which is based the action of the Iliad. Achilles, on his
part, withdrew his forces from the contest, and neither prayers nor entreaties,
nor direct offers of reconciliation, couched in the most tempting and flattering
terms, could induce him to return to the field. The death of his friend Patroclus,
however, by the hand of Hector, roused him at length to action and revenge, and
a reconciliation having thereupon taken place between the two Grecian leaders,
Briseis was restored. As the arms of Achilles, having been worn by Patroclus,
had become the prize of Hector, Hephaestus, at the request of Thetis, fabricated
a suit of impenetrable armour for her son. Arrayed in this, Achilles took the
field, and after a great slaughter of the Trojans, and a contest with the god
of the Scamander, by whose waters he was nearly overwhelmed, he met Hector, chased
him thrice around the walls of Troy, and finally slew him by the aid of Athene.
According to Homer, Achilles dragged the corpse of Hector at his chariot-wheels
thrice round the tomb of Patroclus, and from the language of the poet he would
appear to have done this for several days in succession. Vergil, however, makes
Achilles to have dragged the body of Hector twice round the walls of Troy. In
this it is probable that the Roman poet followed one of the cyclic or else the
tragic writers. The corpse of the Trojan hero was at last yielded up to the tears
and supplications of Priam, who had come for that purpose to the tent of Achilles,
and a truce was granted the Trojans for the performance of the funeral obsequies.
Achilles did not long survive his illustrious opponent. According to the more
generally received account, as it is given by the scholiast on Lycophron, and
also by Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius, Achilles, having become enamoured
of Polyxena, the daughter of Priam, signified to the monarch that he would become
his ally on condition of receiving her hand in marriage. Priam consented, and
the parties having come for that purpose to the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo,
Achilles was treacherously slain by Paris, who had concealed himself there, being
wounded by him with an arrow in the heel. The ashes of the hero were mingled in
a golden urn with those of his friend Patroclus, and were said to repose at Sigaeum.
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Achilles (Achilleus). In the legends about Achilles, as about all the heroes of
the Trojan war, the Homeric traditions should be carefully kept apart from the
various additions and embellishments with which the gaps of the ancient story
have been filled up by later poets and mythographers, not indeed by fabrications
of their own, but by adopting those supplementary details, by which oral tradition
in the course of centuries had variously altered and developed the original kernel
of the story, or those accounts which were peculiar only to certain localities.
Homeric story.
Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones in Phthiotis, in Thessaly,
and of the Nereid Thetis (Hom. Il. xx. 206, &c.). From his father's name he is
often called Peleides, Peleiades, or Peleion (Hom. Il. xviii. 316; i. 1; i. 197;
Virg. Aen. ii. 263), and from that of his grandfather Aeacus, he derived his name
Aeacides (Aiakides, Il. ii. 860; Virg. Aen. i. 99). He was educated from his tender
childhood by Phoenix, who taught him eloquence and the arts of war, and accompanied
him to the Trojan war, and to whom the hero always shewed great attachment (ix.
485, &c.; 438, &c.). In the healing art he was instructed by Cheiron, the centaur
(xi. 832). His mother Thetis foretold him that his fate was either to gain glory
and die early, or to live a long but inglorious life (ix. 410,&c.). The hero chose
the earlier, and took part in the Trojan war, from which he knew that he was not
to return. In fifty ships, or according to later traditions, in sixty (Hygin.
Fab. 97), he led his hosts of Myrmidones, Hellenes, and Achaeans against Troy
(ii. 681, &c., xvi. 168). Here the swift-footed Achilles was the great bulwark
of the Greeks, and the worthy favourite of Athena and Hera (i. 195, 208). Previous
to his dispute with Agamemnon, he ravaged the country around Troy, and destroyed
twelve towns on the coast and eleven in the interior of the country (ix. 328,
&c.). When Agamemnon was obliged to give up Chryseis to her father, he threatened
to take away Briseis from Achilles, who surrendered her on the persuasion of Athena,
but at the same time refused to take any further part in the war, and shut himself
up in his tent. Zeus, on the entreaty of Thetis, promised that victory should
be on the side of the Trojans, until the Achaeans should have honoured her son
(i. 26, to the end). The affairs of the Greeks declined in consequence, and they
were at last pressed so hard, that Agamemnon advised them to take to flight (ix.
17, &c.). But other chiefs opposed this counsel, and an embassy was sent to Achilles,
offering him rich presents and the restoration of Briseis (ix. 119, &c.); but
in vain. At last, however, he was persuaded by Patroclus, his dearest friend,
to allow him to make use of his men, his horses, and his armour (xvi. 49, &c.).
Patroclus was slain, and when this news reached Achilles, he was seized with unspeakable
grief. Thetis consoled him, and promised new arms, which were to be made by Hephaestus,
and Iris appeared to rouse him from his lamentations, and exhorted him to rescue
the body of Patroclus (xviii. 166, &c.). Achilles now rose, and his thundering
voice alone put the Trojans to flight. When his new armour was brought to him,
he reconciled himself to Agamemnon, and hurried to the field of battle, disdaining
to take any drink or food until the death of his friend should be avenged (xix.
155, &c.). He wounded and slew numbers of Trojans (xx. xxi.), and at length met
Hector, whom he chased thrice around the walls of the city. He then slew him,
tied his body to his chariot, and dragged him to the ships of the Greeks (xxii).
After this, he burnt the body of Patroclus, together with twelve young captive
Trojans, who were sacrificed to appease the spirit of his friend; and subsequently
gave up the body of Hector to Priam, who came in person to beg for it (xxiii.
xxiv.). Achilles himself fell in the battle at the Scaean gate, before Troy was
taken. His death itself does not occur in the Iliad, but it is alluded to in a
few passages (xxii. 358, &c., xxi. 278, &c.). It is expressly mentioned in the
Odyssey (xxiv. 36, &c.), where it is said that his fall --his conqueror is not
mentioned-- was lamented by gods and men, that his remains together with those
of Patroclus were buried in a golden urn which Dionysus had given as a present
to Thetis, and were deposited in a place on the coast of the Hellespont, where
a mound was raised over them. Achilles is the principal hero of the Iliad, and
the poet dwells upon the delineation of his character with love and admiration,
feelings in which his readers cannot but sympathise with him. Achilles is the
handsomest and bravest of all the Greeks; he is affectionate towards his mother
and his friends, formidable in battles, which are his delight; open-hearted and
without fear, and at the same time susceptible to the gentle and quiet joys of
home. His greatest passion is ambition, and when his sense of honour is hurt,
he is unrelenting in his revenge and anger, but withal submits obediently to the
will of the gods.
Later traditions.
These chiefly consist in accounts which fill up the history of his youth and death.
His mother wishing to make her son immortal, is said to have concealed him by
night in fire, in order to destroy the mortal parts he had inherited from his
father, and by day she anointed him with ambrosia. But Peleus one night discovered
his child in the fire, and cried out in terror. Thetis left her son and fled,
and Peleus entrusted him to Cheiron, who educated and instructed him in the arts
of riding, hunting, and playing the phorminx, and also changed his original name,
Ligyron, i. e. the "whining," into Achilles (Pind. Nem. iii. 51, &c.; Orph. Argon.
395; Apollon. Rhod. iv. 813; Stat. Achil. i. 269, &c.; Apollod. iii. 13.6, &c.).
Cheiron fed his pupil with the hearts of lions and the marrow of bears. According
to other accounts, Thetis endeavoured to make Achilles immortal by dipping him
in the river Styx, and succeeded with the exception of the ankles, by which she
held him (Fulgent. Mythol. iii. 7; Stat. Achill. i. 269), while others again state
that she put him in boiling water to test his immortality, and that he was found
immortal except at the ankles. From his sixth year he fought with lions and bears,
and caught stags without dogs or nets. The muse Calliope gave him the power of
singing to cheer his friends at banquets (Philostr. Her. xix. 2). When he had
reached the age of nine, Calchas declared that Troy could not be taken without
his aid, and Thetis knowing that this war would be fatal to him, disguised him
as a maiden, and introduced him among the daughters of Lycomedes of Scyros, where
he was called by the name of Pyrrha on account of his golden locks. But his real
character did not remain concealed long, for one of his companions, Deidameia,
became mother of a son, Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, by him. The Greeks at last discovered
his place of concealment, and an embassy was sent to Lycomedes, who, though he
denied the presence of Achilles, yet allowed the messengers to search his palace.
Odysseus discovered the young hero by a stratagem, and Achilles immediately promised
his assistance to the Greeks (Apollod. l. c.; Hygin. Fab. 96; Stat. Achil. ii.
200). A different account of his stay in Scyros is given by Plutarch (Thes. 35)
and Philostratus (Her. xix. 3).
Respecting his conduct towards Iphigeneia at Aulis, see Agamemnon,
Iphigeneia at ancient Mycenae.
During the war against Troy, Achilles slew Penthesileia, an Amazon,
but was deeply moved when he discovered her beauty; and when Thersites ridiculed
him for his tenderness of heart, Achilles killed the scoffer by a blow with the
fist (Q. Smyrn. i. 669, &c.; Paus. v. 11.2; comp. Soph. Philoct. 445; Lycoph.
Cas. 999; Tzetzes, Posthom. 199). He also fought with Memnon and Troilus (Q. Smyrn.
ii. 480, &c.; Hygin. Fab. 112; Virg. Aen. i. 474, &c.). The accounts of his death
differ very much, though all agree in stating that he did not fall by human hands,
or at least not without the interference of the god Apollo. According to some
traditions, he was killed by Apollo himself (Soph. Philoct. 334; Q. Smyrn. iii.
62; Hor. Carm. iv. 6. 3, &c.), as he had been foretold (Hom. Il. xxi. 278). According
to Hyginus (Fab. 107), Apollo assumed the appearance of Paris in killing him,
while others say that Apollo merely directed the weapon of Paris against Achilles,
and thus caused his death, as had been suggested by the dying Hector (Virg. Aen.
vi. 57 ; Ov. Met. xii. 601, &c.; Hom. Il. xxii. 358, &c.). Dictys Cretensis (iii.
29) relates his death thus: Achilles loved Polyxena, a daughter of Priam, and
tempted by the promise that he should receive her as his wife, if he would join
the Trojans, he went without arms into the temple of Apollo at Thymbra, and was
assassinated there by Paris (Comp. Philostr. Her. xix. 11; Hygin. Fab. 107 and
110; Dares Phryg. 34; Q. Smyrn. iii. 50; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 307). His body was
rescued by Odysseus and Ajax the Telamonian; his armour was promised by Thetis
to the bravest among the Greeks, which gave rise to a contest between the two
heroes who had rescued his body.
After his death, Achilles became one of the judges in the lower world,
and dwelled in the islands of the blessed, where he was united with Medeia or
Iphigeneia. The fabulous island of Leuce in the Euxine was especially sacred to
him, and was called Achillea, because, according to some reports, it contained
his body (Mela, ii. 7; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. iv. 49; Paus. iii. 19.11). Achilles
was worshipped as one of the national heroes of Greece. The Thessalians, at the
command of the oracle of Dodona, offered annual sacrifices to him in Troas (Philostr.
Her. xix. 14). In the ancient gymnasium at Olympia there was a cenotaph, at which
certain solemnities were performed before the Olympic games commenced (Paus. vi.
23.2). Sanctuaries of Achilles existed on the road from Arcadia to Sparta (Paus.
iii. 20.8), on cape Sigeum in Troas (Strab. xi.), and other places. The events
of his life were frequently represented in ancient works of art.
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FYLAKI (Ancient city) ALMYROS
He was son of Iphiclus and leader of the Thessalians from Phylace, Pyrasus, Iton, Andron and Ptelos with 40 ships, the first Greek, who was slain in the Trojan War (Il. 2.695, 13.681).
Protesilaus. The son of Iphiclus and Astyoche, dwelling in Phylace in Thessaly. He is called Phylacius and Phylacides, either from his native place or from his being a grandson of Phylacus. He led the warriors of several Thessalian towns against Troy, and was the first of all the Greeks who was killed by the Trojans, being the first who leaped from the ships upon the Trojan coast. According to the common tradition he was slain by Hector. Protesilaus is most celebrated in ancient story for the strong affection existing between him and his wife Laodamia, the daughter of Acastus. His tomb was shown near Eleus, in the Thracian Chersonesus, where a magnificent temple was erected to him. There was a belief that nymphs had planted elm-trees around his grave, which died away when they had grown sufficiently high to see Troy, and that fresh shoots then sprang from the roots. There was also a sanctuary of Protesilaus at Phylace, at which funeral games were celebrated.
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Laodamia. A daughter of Acastus and Astydamia, and wife of Protesilaus. (See Protesilaus.) When she received intelligence of the death of her husband in the Trojan War, she caused an image of him to be formed, which she would never allow to be out of her sight. Her father ordered the image to be burned, that her [p. 921] thoughts might be diverted from her loss; but Laodamia threw herself into the flames, and perished along with it. Thence probably the tradition adopted by some poets that the gods restored life to Protesilaus for three hours, and that this hero, finding the decree irreversible, by which he was to return to the shades below, prevailed on Laodamia to accompany him thither. She was also called Phylaces
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Laodamia to Protesilaus: P. Ovidius Naso, The Epistles of Ovid & Commentary on the Heroides of Ovid
Podarces, son of Iphiclus and brother of Protesilaus, became the leader of the Thessalians from Phylace and Pyrasus after the death of the latter (Il. 2.704, 13.693).
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Medon and staunch Podarkes led the men of Phthia. Of these, Medon was bastard son of Oileus and brother of Ajax, but he lived in Phylake away from his own country, for he had killed the brother of his stepmother Eriopis, the wife of Oileus; the other, Podarkes, was the son of Iphiklos, son of Phylakos. These two stood in the van of the Phthians, and defended the ships along with the Boeotians. Medon was slain by Aeneas (Il. 2.727, 13.693, 15.332).
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KYFOS (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Gouneus participated in the Trojan War with 22 ships as the leader of the city of Cyphus and was followed by the Peraebi and the Enienes (Il. 2.748).
MAGNESIA (Ancient area) THESSALIA
He was the son of Tenthredon and the leader of the Magnetes from Peneius and Pelion in the Trojan War with 40 ships (Il. 2.756).
MELIVIA (Ancient city) THESSALIA
He was son of Poeas, skilful archer, who took part in the Trojan War and led the Thessalians from Methone, Thaumacia, Meliboea and Olizon with 7 ships against Troy (Il. 2.718, Od. 3.190 & 8.219).
Philoctetes. The son of Poeas, king of the Malians in Oeta, by Demonassa. He inherited the bow and arrows of Heracles. He was leader of seven ships in the expedition against Troy; but, on the way out, was bitten by a snake at Lemnos, or the small island of Chryse near Lemnos, and, on account of the intolerable stench caused by the wound, was abandoned at Lemnos on the advice of Odysseus. Here in his sickness he dragged out a miserable life till the tenth year of the war. Then, however, on account of Helenus's prophecy that Troy could only be conquered by the arrows of Heracles, Odysseus and Diomedes went to fetch him, and he was healed by Machaon. After he had slain Paris, Troy was conquered. He was one of the heroes who came safe home again. The story of Philoctetes was dramatized by Aeschylus and Euripides (B.C. 431), as well as by Sophocles (B.C. 409). It is also the theme of numerous monuments of ancient art.
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ORMINION (Ancient city) VOLOS
He was son of Euaemon and king of the thessalian city of Ormenius, who participated in the Trojan War with 40 ships (Il. 2.736, 5.76).
Eurypylus, (Eurupulos). A son of Euaemon and Ops. (Hygin. Fab. 81.) He appears in the different traditions about him, as a hero of Ormenion, or Hyria, or as a king of Cyrene. In the Iliad he is represented as having led the men of Ormenion and other places to Troy with forty ships, and he is one of those who offer to fight with Hector. (ii. 734, vii. 167.) He slew many a Trojan, and when he himself was wounded by Paris, he was nursed and cured by Patroclus. (xi. 841, xv. 390; comp. Apollod. iii. 10.8 ; Hygin. Fab. 97; Ov. Met. xiii. 357.) According to a genealogy of the heroes of Ormenion he was a son of Hyperochus, and the father of Ormenus. (Schol. ad. Pind. Ol. vii. 42.) Among the heroes of Hyria, he is mentioned as a son of Poseidon and Celaeno, and went to Libya before Cyrene who fought against the lion that attacked his flocks, and in Libya he became connected with the Argonauts. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1561; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 902.) He is said to have been married to Sterope, the daughter of Helios, by whom he became the father of Lycaon and Leucippus. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 57; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 886.) The tradition which connects him with the legends about Dionysus, is given under Aesymnetes, and Eurypylus as connected with Dionysus, dedicated a sanctuary to Soteria at Patrae (Paus. vii. 21.2), which also contained a monument of him, and where sacrifices were offered to him every year after the festival of Dionysus (vii. 19.1, 3, ix. 41.1.) From Pausanias we learn that Eurypylus was called by some a son of Dexamenus. (Comp. Muller, Orchom., 2nd edit.)
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Eurypylus. Son of Euaemon, king of Ormenium in Thessaly, one of the suitors of Helen. He was among the bravest of the Greek heroes who fought before Troy, and of his own accord offered to engage Hector in single combat. In the later story he appears in connection with the worship of Dionysus. At the division of the Trojan spoil he received an image of Dionysus, made by Hephaestus and presented to Dardanus. This had been kept in a chest as a Palladium. When Eurypylus opened the chest and beheld the image he fell into a madness. The Delphic oracle promised that he should be healed if he dedicated the image in a spot where men offered barbaric sacrifices. Accordingly he dedicated it at Aroe in Achaea, where an offering of the finest youth and fairest virgin was made annually to Artemis. The bloody act was abolished, and the milder service of Dionysus introduced in its place.
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PEREVIA (Ancient area) THESSALIA
He was the son of Coronus and suitor of Helen, who participated with Polypoetes in the Trojan War with 40 ships (Il. 2.745, 12.130, 12.188, 23.841).
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TRIKKI (Ancient city) THESSALIA
He was son of Asclepius and the leader, along with his brother Machaon, of Tricca, Ithome and Oechalia with 30 ships (Il. 2.732, 11.832).
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Machaon was son of Asclepius and the leader, along with his brother Podaleirius, of Tricca, Ithome and Oechalia with 30 ships (Il. 2.732).
Machaon. A son of Aesculapius, and surgeon of the Greeks in the Trojan War. He led, with his brother Podalirus, troops from Trica, Ithome, and Oechalia. He was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus, and received divine honours after his death in Messenia, of which he was by some called the king.
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Machaon, a son of Asclepius by Epeione (Hom. Il. xi. 614; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iii. 14), or, according to others, by Coronis (Hygin. Fab. 97), while others again call him a son of Poseidon (Eustath. ad Hom.). He was married to Anticleia, the daughter of Diocles (Paus. iv. 30.2), by whom he became the father of Gorgasus, Nicomachus (Paus. iv. 6. 3), Alexanor, Sphyrus, and Polemocrates (Paus. ii. 11. 6, iv. 38. 6; Apollod. iii. 10. 8; Hygin. Fab. 81). In the Trojan war Machaon appears as the surgeon of the Greeks, for with his brother Podaleirius he had gone to Troy with thirty ships, commanding the men who came from Tricca, Ithome, and Oechalia (Il. ii. 728, &c., xi. 515). He was wounded by Paris, but was carried from the field of battle by Nestor (Il. xi. 505, 598, 833). Later writers mention him as one of the Greek heroes that were concealed in the wooden horse (Hygin. Fab. 108; Virg. Aen. ii. 263), and he is said to have cured Philoctetes (Tzetz. ad Lycopih. 911; Propert. ii. 1, 59). He was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus, and his remains were carried to Messenia by Nestor. His tomb was believed to be at Gerenia, in Messenia, where a sanctuary was dedicated to him, in which sick persons sought relief of their sufferings. It was there that Glaucus, the son of Aepytus, was believed to have first paid him heroic honours. (Paus. iv. 3. 2, 6, iii. 26. 7)
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ALOS (Ancient city) MAGNESSIA
Alos was subject to Achilles and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.682). It was located near the Amphrystos river.
There were two cities under the same name, one in Pthiotis and another one in Locris. Homer does not mention which one is included in the Catalogue of Ships.
ARGISSA (Ancient city) LARISSA
Argissa participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.738).
FERES (Ancient city) RIGAS FERAIOS
Pherae participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.713). The poet mentions that Eumelus lived there (Od. 4.798).
FYLAKI (Ancient city) ALMYROS
Phylace participated in the Trojan War under Protesilaus and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.695, Od. 11.289 & 15.236). After his death in Troy, the leadership was taken over by his younger brother, Podarces (Il. 2.704). The city was located between Pharsala and Almyros, on the northern side of the Mt. Othrys.
GLAFYRES (Ancient city) VOLOS
Glaphyrae, a city of Thessaly, belonged to the territory of Eumelus and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.712).
GYRTON (Ancient city) LARISSA
Gyrtone participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Polypoetes and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il 2.738)l
ICHALIA (Ancient city) TRIKALA
Oechalia belonged to the territory of Asclepiades (= Machaon) and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. It was located near Tricca and its king was Eurytus, son of Melaneus, father of Iole (Il. 2.730, 2.596, Od. 8.224, 21.13-33).
ILONI (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Elone, city of Perrhaebia, participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.739).
IOLKOS (Ancient city) VOLOS
Iolcus, which the poet calls "well-built" and "spacious", belonged to the territory of Eumelus and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. There was also the residence of king Pelias (Il. 2.712, Od. 11.256).
ITHOMI (Ancient city) KARDITSA
Ithome participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Machaon and Podaleirius, sons of Asclepius, and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. The poet calls it "Ithome of the crags" (Il. 2.729).
KYFOS (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Cyphus, the capital of the Peraebi and the Enienes, belonged to the territory of Gouneus and was located at the Titaressus river (Il. 2.748-749).
LARISSA (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Pelasgian Argos, city of Thessaly, participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Achilles and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.681).
MELIVIA (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Meliboea belonged to the territory of Philoctetes and was located near the Mt. Orthys. It is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.717).
MITHONI (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Methone participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Philoctetes and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.716),
OLIZON (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Olizon participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Philoctetes and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. The poet calls it “rugged” because it was built on a mountain (Il. 2.717).
OLOSSON (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Oloosson,city of Perrhaebia, participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Polypoetes and Leonteus and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. The poet calls it "white" (Il. 2.739).
ORMINION (Ancient city) VOLOS
Ormenius belonged to the territory of Eurypylus and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.734).
PIRASSIA (Ancient city) KARDITSA
Asterium belonged to the territory of Eurypylus and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.735).
PTELEOS (Ancient city) ALMYROS
Pteleos belonged to the territory of Protesilaus and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. The poet calls the city "couched in grass" (Il. 2.697).
PYRASSOS (Ancient city) VOLOS
Pyrasus belonged to the territory of Protesilaus and is listed in the Homeric Cataloguer of Ships. There was a sanctuary of Demeter (Il. 2.695).
TRIKKI (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Tricca belonged to the territory of Asclepiades (= Machaon, son of Asclepius) (Il. 2.729). It was the homeland of Podaleirius and Machaon, where there was the most ancient sanctuary of Asclepius (Aesculapius).
VIVI (Ancient city) MAGNESSIA
Boebe, belonged to the territory of Eumelus and was located near the homonymous lake (Boebeis) (Il. 2.711). It is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.712).
DOLOPIA (Ancient country) THESSALIA
Phoenix was the son of Amyntor and followed Achilles to Troy. He was cursed by his father after trying to seduce his concubine and fled to Phthia, the territory of Peleus, who accepted Phoenix as a father and made him ruler of the Dolopians (Il. 9.168, 427 etc., 16.196, 17.311).
FTHIA (Ancient city) LARISSA
Alcimedon. A son of Laerceus, and one of the commanders of the Myrmidons under Patroclus. (Hom. Il. xvi. 197, xvii. 475, &c.)
The son of Maemalus and one of the leaders of the Myrmidons in the Trojan War (Il. 16.193).
He was the son of Perierus and husband of Polydora, who was the daughter of Peleus and mother of Menesthius by Spercheius (Il. 16.177).
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The father of Borus (Il. 16.177), king of Messenia
FYLAKI (Ancient city) ALMYROS
He was the son of Phylacus and father of Podarces and Protesilaus (Il. 2.705, 23.636, Od. 11.289).
Iphicles. A son of Phylacus, and grandson of Deion and Clymene, or, according to others, a son of Cephalus and Clymene, the daughter of Minyas. He was married to Diomedeia or Astyoche,and was the father of Podarcesand Protesilaus (Hom. Il. ii. 705, xiii. 698; Apollod. i. 9. Β 12; Paus. iv. 36. Β 2; x. 29. Β 2; Hygin. Fab. 103). He was, like the two other Iphicles, one of the Argonauts, and possessed large herds of oxen, which he gave to Melampus, who had given him a favourable prophecy respecting his progeny (Hom. Il. ii. 705, Od. xi. 289, &c.). He was also celebrated for his swiftness in racing, by which he won the prize at the funeral games of Pelias, but in those of Amarynceus he was conquered by Nestor (Paus. v. 17. Β 4, 36. Β 2. x. 29. Β 2; Hom. Il. xxiii. 636).
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IOLKOS (Ancient city) VOLOS
He was the son of Aeson by Polymede, leader of the Argonautic expedition (Od. 12.69 etc.), who, during his voyage to Colchis, went to Lemnos and became the father of Euneus by Hypsipyle (Il. 7.469).
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