Protesilaus

Role: hero · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 4

In Book 3, Protesilaus, honoured at Eleus, privately punished the Persian Artayctes. In Book 4, he is named as the husband of Polydora, who was the first Greek to venture ashore at the Troad; Iphiclus is identified as his father.

By Book 10, Protesilaus is seated opposite Achilles, and the two are looking at one another.

Relationship record

Book 3 · Chapter 4

• with Artayctes (interaction) “Protesilaus who is honoured at Eleus, a hero not a whit more illustrious than Argus, privately punished the Persian Artayctes,”

Book 4 · Chapter 2

• married with Polydora “the wife of Protesilaus, (who when the Greeks got to the Troad was the first who ventured to land), was by name Polydora”

Book 4 · Chapter 36

• parent: Iphiclus “The breed of these oxen would be Thessalian, of the herd of Iphiclus the father of Protesilaus”

Book 5 · Chapter 17

• parent: Iphiclus “Iphiclus, the father of Protesilaus”

Book 10 · Chapter 30

• with Achilles (interaction) “And Protesilaus and Achilles are seated, and looking at one another.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.