InGreek mythology,Pylaeus (Ancient Greek: Πύλαιος), son of Lethus, son ofTeutamides, descendant ofPelasgus.^[1] He was one of the allies to KingPriam in theTrojan War; he commanded thePelasgian contingent together with his brotherHippothous.^[2][3] Pylaeus is hardly ever mentioned separately from his brother; they are said to have fallen in battle together by Dictys Cretensis^[4] and to have been buried "in a garden" according to the late Latin poetAusonius.^[5]

Strabo, in his comment on the Homeric passage referenced above, mentions that according to a local tradition ofLesbos, Pylaeus also commanded the Lesbian army and had a mountain on the island named Pylaeus after him.^[6]

Pylaeus is also an epithet ofHermes.^[7]

• 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.
• Dionysus of Halicarnassus,Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt,Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.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.
• Strabo,The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo,Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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