Automedon

Family: The Greeks · Role: charioteer · First appears: Book VIII · Part 1

Life events

• Neoptolemus left the fleeing Trojans and ordered Automedon to drive toward the Greeks in danger.(Book IX · Part 2)
  • With: Neoptolemus
  • “Those Troyward-fleeing foes Whom he had followed slaying, left he now, And bade Automedon thither drive, where hosts Were falling of the Achaeans.”

Book VIII · Part 1

• with Neoptolemus (interaction) “Onward they whirled him, those immortal steeds, The which, when now he longed to chase the foe Back from the ships, Automedon, who wont To rein them for his father, brought to him.”

Book IX · Part 2

• with Neoptolemus (Neoptolemus directs Automedon to drive the chariot toward the battle.) “And bade Automedon thither drive, where hosts Were falling of the Achaeans.”

Also listed in The Greeks — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.