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The two battled against the Trojans, particularly Deiphobus and Aeneas. In retaliation for the death of Ascalaphus, Meriones pierced Deiphobus in the shoulder with his spear. Gravely injured, Deiphobus was carried from the battlefield by his brother Polites. Meriones then killed Adamas son of Asius and Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes.
Diomedes does win, with his famed Trojan horses, taken from Aeneas in Book V, where it had been revealed they were descendants of the horses given by Zeus to King Tros, original founder of the Trojans, and are the finest that live. Diomedes first place prize is, "a woman skilled in all useful arts, and a three-legged cauldron".
Dares claimed 866,000 Greeks and 676,000 Trojans were killed in this war, but archaeology has uncovered nothing that suggests a war this large was ever fought on that site. [ 3 ] The work was a significant source for Joseph of Exeter 's De bello Troiano . [ 4 ]
Other parts of the Trojan War were told in the poems of the Epic Cycle, also known as the Cyclic Epics: the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony. Though these poems survive only in fragments, their content is known from a summary included in Proclus' Chrestomathy. [6] The authorship of the Cyclic Epics is uncertain.
This is a list of mythological characters who appear in narratives concerning the Trojan War. Map of Homeric ... This table lists characters killed during the war ...
In Greek mythology, Idomeneus (/ aɪ ˈ d ɒ m ɪ n i ə s /; [1] Greek: Ἰδομενεύς) was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships. [2] He was also one of the suitors of Helen, as well as a comrade of the Telamonian Ajax. Meriones was his charioteer and brother-in-arms.
Central Trojan hero in Trojan War; heir apparent; killed by Achilles, who attached Hector's body to his chariot and dragged it around city. Paris Hecuba Raised as a shepherd; his abduction of Helen launched the Trojan War; killed by Philoctetes. Deiphobus Hecuba Maybe the most cunning of Trojan princes, married Helen after Paris' death.
Xanthus, a Trojan warrior and son of Phaenops. Together with his twin brother Thoon, they were killed by Diomedes during the Trojan War. [16] Xanthos (King of Thebes), the son of Ptolemy, killed by Andropompus or Melanthus. [17] Equine. Xanthus, one of the Mares of Diomedes. [18] Xanthus, one of Achilles' two horses; see Balius and Xanthus. [19]