Acamas 1 fled when the
DIOSCURI attacked
Athens. Later he went to
Troy together with
Diomedes 2 to ask for the
restoration of Helen. After the war
he brought back his grandmother Aethra 2 who was captive in
Troy. Acamas 1 was son of
Theseus and
Phaedra, daughter of
Minos 2. He married Laodice 3,
daughter of Priam 1, and had by
her a son Munitus, who was killed by the bite of a snake
while hunting at Olynthus in Thrace. Acamas 1 is counted
among those who hid inside the
WOODEN HORSE [Apd.Ep.1.18,
1.23, 5.22; Dio.4.62.1; Eur.Hcl.115ff.; Hyg.Fab.108;
Parth.16.1; Pau.10.10.1, 10.26.2; QS.4.332, 12.314ff.,
13.497ff.; SI.4; Try.177, 662; Vir.Aen.2.62].
Aesymnus. Killed by Hector
1 [Hom.Il.11.303.].
Agelaus 7. Killed by Hector
1 [Hom.Il.11.302].
Alastor 3 is remembered for having, together with
Mecisteus 5, carried the wounded Teucer 1 off the
battlefield as they later did also with Hypsenor 2
[Hom.Il.8.333, 13.422].
Alcimedes. Friend of Ajax
2 [QS.6.557].
Alcimedon 1 commanded a company of the Myrmidons.
He was son of Laerces 1 and was killed by
Aeneas [Hom.Il.16.197;
QS.11.448ff.].
Alcimus 1. One of
Achilles' squires. He was killed
by Deiphobus 1 [Hom.Il.19.392, 24.574; QS.11.87].
Alcmaon. Son of Thestor 4. Alcmaon was killed by
King Sarpedon 1 of Lycia [Hom.Il.12.394].
Amphidamas 6. Achaean warrior. Amphidamas 6 was
among those who hid inside the
WOODEN HORSE [Try.182].
Amphilochus 1 is known, among other things, for
having killed his own mother in conjunction with his brother
[see Robe & Necklace of Harmonia
1]. He is not always well distinguished from Amphilochus
2, son of Alcmaeon 1. Amphilochus 1 was the son of
Amphiaraus and greedy
Eriphyle. They say that he was killed by
Apollo at Soli. Amphilochus 1 was
one of the EPIGONI and is counted
among the SUITORS OF HELEN
[Apd.3.7.2-5, 3.10.8.; Hdt.3.91; Hes.Mel.1, 8; QS.14.366].
Amphilochus 2 colonized Amphilochian Argos in
Aetolia. He arrived late for the war at
Troy and, having survived it, he
helped to bury Calchas.
Amphilochus 2 was son of Alcmaeon 1 and Manto 1, daughter of
Tiresias. He and Mopsus 2, son
of Manto 1 by another father, killed each other in single
combat [Apd.3.7.7; Apd.Ep.4.19, 6.2].
Amphimachus 7. Achaean warrior. Amphimachus 7 was
among those who hid inside the
WOODEN HORSE [QS.12.325].
Amphion 3. A Commander of the Epeans of
Elis. [Hom.Il.13.692].
Amphion 5. Friend of the celebrated architect
Epeius 2, constructor of the
WOODEN HORSE. Amphion 5 was
killed by Aeneas [QS.10.111].
Anchialus 1 is remembered for riding the same
chariot as Menesthes 1 when Hector
1 attacked and killed him [Hom.Il.5.609].
Andromachus 1. Cretan killed by
Aeneas [QS.11.41].
Anticlus would have answered when
Helen went around the
WOODEN HORSE imitating the
voices of the wives of the warriors who were inside it, but
Odysseus held fast his mouth, so
tight that he prevented him to breath and he died inside the
WOODEN HORSE. Anticlus was
son of Ortyx and husband of Laodamia 4 [Apd.Ep.5.19;
QS.12.314ff.; Try.178, 476ff.].
Antimachus 6. A Cretan warrior who came with King
Idomeneus 1 of Crete to fight
against Troy. Antimachus 6 was
killed by Aeneas. He was among
those hidden inside the WOODEN
HORSE [QS.6.622, 12.314ff.].
Antiphates 5. One of the Achaean warriors who hid
inside the WOODEN HORSE
[Try.180].
Antiphus 6. An Ithacan, son of Aegyptius. He
survived the Trojan War, but on
his homeward way he was devoured by the glutton Cyclops
Polyphemus 2 [Hom.Od.2.15ff.;
QS.8.125].
Antiphus 8. Killed by the Mysian Eurypylus 6
[QS.6.615].
Antitheus. Killed by the Amazon Penthesilia
[QS.1.228].
Aphareus 3 served as an armed sentry along with
Thrasymedes 1, son of Nestor.
Aphareus 3 was son of Caletor 1. He was killed by
Aeneas [Hom.Il.9.83, 13.541].
Aristolochus. Killed by
Aeneas [QS.8.93].
Asaeus. Killed by Hector
1 [Hom.Il.11.301].
Automedon. From Scyros.
Achilles' charioteer, and later
squire [Hom.Il.9.209; Hyg.Fab.97; QS.8.35; Vir.Aen.2.477].
Autonous 1. Killed by
Hector 1 [Hom.Il.11.301].
Bathycles, son of Chalcon, was one of the most
prosperous of the Myrmidons who fought against
Troy. He was slain by Glaucus 3, son
of Hippolochus 1, son of
Bellerophon [Hom.Il.16.594].
Bias 4. An Athenian who supported Menestheus 1
against the attacks of Hector 1
[Hom.Il.13.691].
Bremon came from Lyctos, a city in
Crete. He was killed by
Aeneas [QS.11.41].
Bucolion 4. Killed by the Mysian Eurypylus 6
[QS.6.615].
Chromion. Killed by the Mysian Eurypylus 6
[QS.6.615].
Cleodorus. A Rhodian, son of Lernus 3 and
Amphiale. He was killed by Paris
[QS.10.213ff.].
Cleolaus 2. The henchman of Meges 1. He was killed
by Paris [QS.6.634].
Cleon. A fisherman from Syme, a small island
between Caria and Rhodes, who came
with Nireus 2 to fight against Troy.
Cleon was killed by Polydamas [QS.11.60].
Coeranus 3 from Lyctos in
Crete was the squire of Meriones.
He was killed by Hector 1
[Hom.Il.17.611ff.].
Crethon. Son of Diocles 1, son of Orsilochus 1,
son of the river god Alpheus. He was killed by
Aeneas, who also slew his twin
brother [Hom.Il.5.541].
Deileon 2. Follower of Epeius 2, the constructor
of the WOODEN HORSE. He was
killed by Aeneas [QS.10.111].
Deiochus 1. Killed by
Paris [Hom.Il.15.341].
Deipyrus. One of the armed sentries commanded by
Thrasymedes 1, son of Nestor. He
was killed by Helenus 1
[Hom.Il.9.83, 13.576].
Demoleon 3. A Laconian, son of Hippasus 7, who
came to Troy with
Menelaus. He was killed by
Paris [QS.10.119].
Demoleus. Killed by
Aeneas [Vir.Aen.5.261].
Demophon 1 is brother of Acamas 1 [see above], and
is counted among those who hid inside the
WOODEN HORSE. After the war
he asked Agamemnon for the
freedom of his grandmother Aethra 2, who after the
misadventure of Theseus with
Helen and the destruction of
Aphidnae by the DIOSCURI, had
become Helen's maid.
Agamemnon granted his request
after receiving Helen's consent. On
his return from Troy Demophon 1 came
with a few ships to the land of the Thracian Bisaltians.
There he became the lover of the king's daughter Phyllis 1,
and her father gave her to him with the kingdom for her
dowry. However, the wedding could not take place immediately
because Demophon 1 wished to return to
Athens, but he swore to return.
When he departed Phyllis 1, who was desperately in love with
this man, made with him part of the road and when they
parted company she gave him an enchanted casket containing a
sacrament of the Mother of the Gods, which he was not to
open until he knew for certain that he would not return to
Thrace. Some say that he should had returned on an appointed
day, and that on that day Phyllis 1 ran down to the shore
nine times to see whether his sail showed up. When it became
clear that Demophon 1 would not return, she hanged herself
after cursing her lover. It is also said, however, that she
died out of longing for him, and that round the tomb that
her parents made for her, trees sprang that, at a certain
season, grieve for her, their leaves growing dry and blowing
away. And then again some say she prepared her own epitaph:
"Demophon sent Phyllis
to her doom. Her guest he was, she loved him well. He was
the cause that brought her death to pass. Her own the hand
by which she fell." [Ovid, Heroides 2.145]
In any case it is said that she thought that this would
be a good inscription to be written under the image of
Demophon 1 in Athens:
"This is he whose wiles
betrayed the hostess that loved him." [Ovid,
Heroides 2.75]
By the time Phyllis 1 died Demophon 1 was in Cyprus, and
so soon he opened the casket she had given him he felt
invaded by panic. So, out of control, he mounted his horse,
and when the animal stumbled he was thrown, fell on his
sword and died [Apd.Ep.1.18, 6.17; Dio.4.62.1; Eur.Hcl.115
and passim; Hyg.Fab.48; LI.13; Lib.Met.33; Pau.1.23.8,
10.25.7; Plu.Sol.26.2; QS.12.314ff.; SI.4; Try.177].
Dolops 1. Son of Clytius 7. He was killed by
Hector 1 [Hom.Il.11.302].
Dracius. A commander of the Epeans of
Elis [Hom.Il.13.692].
Dryas 8. Killed by Deiphobus 1 [QS.11.87].
Dymas 5. A warrior from Aulis, a harbour opposite
the island of Euboea, who came to fight against
Troy with the forces of Archesilaus.
He was killed by Aeneas
[QS.8.303].
Echemmon 2. Killed by Eurypylus 6 [QS.6.580ff.].
Echion 4. Son of Portheus 2. Echion 4 was killed
when leaping from the WOODEN
HORSE [Apd.Ep.5.20].
Echius 1. Killed by Polites 1, son of
Priam 1. Echius 1 was father of
Mecisteus 5 [Hom.Il.8.333, 15.339]
Eetion 2. Killed by Paris
[QS.6.639].
Eilissus. Killed by the Amazon Penthesilia
[QS.1.228].
Eioneus 1. Killed by Hector
1 [Hom.Il.7.11].
Elasippus 1. Son of Haemon 6. Elasippus 1 was
killed by the Amazon Penthesilia [QS.1.230].
Epeius 2 is the architect who constructed the
WOODEN HORSE, with the help
of which the Achaeans could take
Troy; he was himself among those
warriors who hid inside it. He was victorious in boxing at
the games celebrated in honour of
Patroclus 1. Epeius 2 was son
of Panopeus 1, son of Phocus 3, son of
Aeacus [Apd.Ep.4.7, 5.14;
Eur.Tro.10; Pau.2.29.4; Pla.Rep.620c; QS.12.81, 12.138ff.,
12.314ff.; Try.57; Vir.Aen.2.264].
Epigeus. One of the best in the Myrmidon force
against Troy. Nevertheless he was
killed by Hector 1. Epigeus was
son of Agacles [Hom.Il.16.571].
Ereuthus. Follower of
Nestor. He was killed by
Memnon [QS.2.238].
Euchenor 2. His father had told him that he must
either die in bed of a painful disease or sail with the
Achaeans and be killed at Troy. He
went to the war, and Paris slew
him. Euchenor 2 was son of the seer Polyidus 1, son of
Coeranus 1, son of Abas 3, son of the seer Melampus 1, son
of Amythaon 1, son of Cretheus 1, son of
Aeolus 1 [Hom.Il.13.663ff.].
Eudorus commanded a company of Myrmidons. He was
son of Hermes and Polymele 2,
daughter of Phylas 3 [Hom.Il.16.179].
Eurydamas 6. Son of Pelias 4. He was among those
who hid inside the WOODEN
HORSE [Try.181].
Eurymachus 4. A fisherman from Syme, a small
island between Caria and Rhodes,
who came with Nireus 2 to fight against
Troy. He was killed by Polydamas
[QS.11.60].
Eurymachus 5. Achaean warrior who was among those
who hid inside the WOODEN
HORSE [QS.12.321].
Eurymedon 4.
Agamemnon's and
Nestor's squire. Eurymedon 4 was
son of Ptolemy 1, son of Peiraeus 2 [Hom.Il.4.228, 11.620].
Evenor 2. Warrior from Dulichium, one of the
Echinadian Islands at the entrance of the Gulf of
Corinth, killed by
Paris [QS.1.274].
Harpalion 3 came to fight at
Troy with the Boeotians led by
Prothoenor 1. He was son of Arizelus and Amphinome 3, and
was killed by Aeneas [QS.10.75].
Helenus 3. Son of Oenops 1. He was killed by
Hector 1 and
Ares [Hom.Il. 5.707].
Hippalmus 3. Killed by the Amazon Penthesilia
[QS.1.229].
Hippasus 10. A Thessalian killed by Agenor 13
[QS.11.87].
Hippomenes 3. Comrade of Teucer 1, the
half-brother of Ajax 1, killed by
Agenor 13 [QS.8.311].
Hipponous 3. Killed by
Hector 1 [Hom.Il.11.303].
Hyllus 6. A Cretan, son of Thersander 4 and
Arethusa 5, killed by Aeneas
[QS.10.81].
Hypsenor 2. Brother of Demoleon 3 [see above]. He
was killed by Deiphobus 1 [Hom.Il.13.411].
Iasus 2. An Athenian officer, son of Sphelus. He
was killed by Aeneas
[Hom.Il.15.332ff.].
Iphidamas 3. Brother of Eurydamas 6 [see above].
He was among those who hid inside the
WOODEN HORSE [Try.181].
Iphinous 2. Son of Dexius. He was killed by
Glaucus 3, son of Hippolochus 1, son of
Bellerophon [Hom.Il.7.13].
Laogonus 3. Killed by the Amazon Derinoe
[QS.1.230].
Liocritus 1. Son of Arisbas 1 and comrade of
Lycomedes 2. He was killed by
Aeneas [Hom.Il.17.344].
Lernus 2. Killed by the Amazon Penthesilia
[QS.1.228].
Leucus 2. One of
Odysseus' comrades; killed by
Antiphus 2 [Hom.Il.4.491].
Lycomedes 2. Armed sentry with Thrasymedes 1, son
of Nestor. Lycomedes 2 was son of
Creon 2 of
Thebes [Hom.Il.9.84; Pau.10.25.5].
Lycon 3. Killed by Deiphobus 1 [QS.8.300].
Lycophron. Son of Mastor 1 from Cythera, an island
off the southern coast of the Peloponnesus. Lycophron was
killed by Hector 1
[Hom.Il.15.430ff.].
Mecisteus 5. Together with Alastor 3, Mecisteus 5
carried the wounded Teucer 1 off the battle-field, as they
later did with Hypsenor 2. Mecisteus 5 was son of Echius 1;
he was killed by Polydamas [Hom.Il.8.333, 13.422, 15.339].
Melanippus 4. One of
Odysseus' men [Hom.Il.19.240].
Melanthius 3. Achaean warrior who helped
Nestor in battle [QS.9.154].
Menesthes 1 was riding the same chariot as
Anchialus 1 when Hector 1
attacked and killed him [Hom.Il.5.609].
Menesthius 1. Son of the river god Sperchius
(either by Polydora 1 or by Polydora 2). He led a company of
the Myrmidons against Troy
[Apd.3.13.4; Hom.Il.16.173].
Menesthius 2. A Boeotian from Arnae, son of
Areithous 1 and Phylomedusa. He was killed by
Paris [Hes.CWE.27; Hom.Il.7.8].
Menippus sailed from Phylace, a Thessalian city
west of the Gulf of Pagasae, and followed Protesilaus to the
war at Troy. He was killed by the
Amazon Clonie [QS.1.230].
Menoetes 2. Lycian killed by
Achilles [Ov.Met.12.116].