Trojan War commander
InGreek mythology ,Mégês Phyleïdês (Ancient Greek : Μέγης Φυλεΐδης) was the commander ofEpeans and/orDulichians during theTrojan War .
Art Illustration depicting Meges Meges was the son of KingPhyleus of Dulichium[ 1] Eustyoche ,[ 2] Ctimene ,[ 3] Ctesimache ,[ 4] Hagnete [ 5] Timandra .[ 6]
Meges’ (half-)sister wasEurydameia , mother ofCleitus andEuchenor by the seerPolyidus ofCorinth .[ 7]
Meges was one of thesuitors of Helen ,[ 8] Echinadians and theDulichians during 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] Deiopites .[ 15] Dolops attempted to strike him with a spear but the corselet Meges was wearing, a gift for his father fromEuphetes ofEphyra , saved his life.[ 16] Odysseus to collect gifts forAchilles .[ 17] Trojan Horse .[ 18]
According toDictys Cretensis , Meges fell at Troy.[ 19] Pausanias mentions a painting of him wounded in the arm by a Trojan, Admetes the son of Augeas.[ 20] Tzetzes relates that Meges, along withProthous and a number of others, perished atEuboea .[ 21]
^ Homer ,Iliad ^ Hyginus ,Fabulae 97 ^ Eustathius adHomer ,Iliad p. 305.15 ;Tzetzes ,Homeric Allegories Prologue 577;Grimal , p.340 ^a b Tzetzes,Homeric Allegories Prologue 577 ^ Tzetzes,Homeric Allegories Prologue 576 ^ Eustathius ad Homer,Iliad p. 305.17 ;Scholia adEuripides ,Orestes 249 =Hesiod ,Ehoiai Loeb edition, 1914) ^ Pherecydes in Scholia ad Homer,Iliad 13.663 ^ Apollodorus , 3.10.8^ Homer,Iliad 2.625, 5.69, 13.692 & 15.531;Euripides ,Iphigenia in Aulis 284; Hyginus,Fabulae 97 ^ Homer,Iliad 5.69 ^ Homer,Iliad 15.523 ^ Homer,Iliad 16.313 ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus , 1.279^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.108 ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.212 ^ Homer,Iliad 15.525 ff. ^ Homer,Iliad 19.239 ff. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 12.326 ^ Dictys Cretensis , 3.10^ Pausanias, 10.25.5 ^ Tzetzes onLycophron , 902 Apollodorus ,The Library with 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 Phrygian translated 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 Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project. Homer ,The Iliad ISBN 978-0674995796 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Pausanias ,Description of Greece with 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.ISBN 0-674-99328-4 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 Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theio.com 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 Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4
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