Talaus
Family: Argonauts · Role: hero · First appears: Book I 1
Life events
- Oreides wounds Talaus in the side, but the blow does not kill him.(Book II 1)
- With: Oreides
- “But Oreides, insolent henchman of Amycus, wounded Talaus son of Bias in the side, but did not slay him”
Book I 1
- parent: Bias “From Argos came Talaus and Areius, sons of Bias, and mighty Leodocus”
- parent: Pero “all of whom Pero daughter of Neleus bare”
Book II 1
- parent: Bias “And to him came Castor and mighty Talaus, son of Bias, and they quickly bound the gauntlets about his hands, often bidding him be of good courage.”
- enemies with Oreides “But Oreides, insolent henchman of Amycus, wounded Talaus son of Bias in the side, but did not slay him, but only grazing the skin the bronze sped under his belt and touched not the flesh.”
- friends with Polydeuces “Thus he spake in his pride, but fierce anger seized them when they heard it, and the challenge smote Polydeuces most of all. And quickly he stood forth his comrades’ champion, and cried: ‘Hold now, and display not to us thy brutal violence, whoever thou art; for we will obey thy rules, as thou sayest. Willingly now do I myself undertake to meet thee.’ Thus he spake outright; but the other with rolling eyes glared on him, like to a lion struck by a javelin when hunters in the mountains are hemming him round, and, though pressed by the throng, he reeks no more of them, but keeps his eyes fixed, singling out that man only who struck him first and slew him not. Hereupon the son of Tyndareus laid aside his mantle, closely-woven, delicately-wrought, which one of the Lemnian maidens had given him as a pledge of hospitality; and the king threw down his dark cloak of double fold with its clasps and the knotted crook of mountain olive which he carried. Then straightway they looked and chose close by a spot that pleased them and bade their comrades sit upon the sand in two lines; nor were they alike to behold in form or in stature. The one seemed to be a monstrous son of baleful Typhoeus or of Earth herself, such as she brought forth aforetime, in her wrath against Zeus; but the other, the son of Tyndareus, was like a star of heaven, whose beams are fairest as it shines through the nightly sky at eventide.”
- with Oreides (Oreides wounded Talaus in battle.) “But Oreides, insolent henchman of Amycus, wounded Talaus son of Bias in the side, but did not slay him, but only grazing the skin the bronze sped under his belt and touched not the flesh.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.