Meges
InGreek mythology,Mégês Phyleïdês(Ancient Greek:Μέγης Φυλεΐδης) was the commander ofEpeansand/orDulichiansduring theTrojan War.
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Family
[edit]Meges was the son of KingPhyleusof Dulichium[1]and his mother's name is variously given as eitherEustyoche,[2]Ctimene,[3]Ctesimache,[4]Hagnete[5]orTimandra.[6]
Meges’ (half-)sister wasEurydameia,mother ofCleitusandEuchenorby the seerPolyidusofCorinth.[7]
Mythology
[edit]Meges was one of thesuitors of Helen,[8]and commanded the armies of theEchinadiansand theDulichiansduring theTrojan War,having summoned forty or sixty ships; he also led a contingent of Epeans who had once migrated to Dulichium together with his father.[4][9]
Meges was credited with killing a number of opponents, includingPedaeus(a son ofAntenor),[10]Croesmus,[11]Amphiclus,[12]Itymoneus,Agelaus,[13]Eurymenes,[14]andDeiopites.[15]Dolopsattempted to strike him with a spear but the corselet Meges was wearing, a gift for his father fromEuphetesofEphyra,saved his life.[16]Meges helpedOdysseusto collect gifts forAchilles.[17]He was one of the men to enter theTrojan Horse.[18]
According toDictys Cretensis,Meges fell at Troy.[19]Pausaniasmentions a painting of him wounded in the arm by a Trojan, Admetes the son of Augeas.[20]Tzetzesrelates that Meges, along withProthousand a number of others, perished atEuboea.[21]
Notes
[edit]- ^Homer,Iliad2.627
- ^Hyginus,Fabulae97
- ^EustathiusadHomer,Iliadp. 305.15;Tzetzes,Homeric AllegoriesPrologue 577;Grimal,p.340
- ^abTzetzes,Homeric AllegoriesPrologue 577
- ^Tzetzes,Homeric AllegoriesPrologue 576
- ^Eustathius ad Homer,Iliadp. 305.17;ScholiaadEuripides,Orestes249=Hesiod,Ehoiaifr. 176 (no. 46 in theLoebedition, 1914)
- ^Pherecydesin Scholia ad Homer,Iliad13.663
- ^Apollodorus,3.10.8
- ^Homer,Iliad2.625, 5.69, 13.692 & 15.531;Euripides,Iphigenia in Aulis284; Hyginus,Fabulae97
- ^Homer,Iliad5.69
- ^Homer,Iliad15.523
- ^Homer,Iliad16.313
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus,1.279
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.108
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.212
- ^Homer,Iliad15.525 ff.
- ^Homer,Iliad19.239 ff.
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus, 12.326
- ^Dictys Cretensis,3.10
- ^Pausanias, 10.25.5
- ^Tzetzes onLycophron,902
References
[edit]- Apollodorus,The Librarywith an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Dictys Cretensis,from The Trojan War.The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete andDares the Phrygiantranslated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Euripides,The Plays of Euripides,translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Euripides,Euripidis Fabulae.vol. 3.Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginustranslated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer,The Iliadwith an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer,Homeri Operain five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
- Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troytranslated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theio
- Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy.Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John,Allegories of the Iliadtranslated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.ISBN978-0-674-96785-4
External links
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