Alcon
Family: The Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: Book III · Part 3
In Book III, Alcon, son of Megacles, wounded Odysseus near the knee: “about the glittering greave the blood / Dark-crimson welled.” Odysseus then killed Alcon with a spear thrust through his shield. In Book IV, the wound Alcon had dealt Odysseus still kept Laertes’ son from competing in the contests of the strong.
Relationship record
Life events
- Alcon wounded Odysseus, who then killed him.(Book III · Part 3)
- With: Odysseus
- “Hard by Odysseus' right knee drave the spear Home, and about the glittering greave the blood Dark-crimson welled. He recked not of the wound, But was unto his smiter sudden death; For clear through his shield he stabbed him with his spear”
- Odysseus, son of Laertes, was unable to compete because of a wound Alcon had dealt him.(Book IV · Part 4)
- With: Odysseus
- “But the son of the old war-lord, Laertes, inly grieved to be withheld From contests of the strong, how fain soe'er, By that sore wound which Alcon dealt to him”
Book III · Part 3
- parent: Megacles “Yet Alcon, son of Megacles battle-swift, Hard by Odysseus' right knee drave the spear”
- with Odysseus (Alcon wounded Odysseus.) “Hard by Odysseus' right knee drave the spear Home, and about the glittering greave the blood Dark-crimson welled.”
- with Odysseus (interaction) “But was unto his smiter sudden death; For clear through his shield he stabbed him with his spear Amidst his battle-fury: to the earth Backward he dashed him by his giant might”
Book IV · Part 4
- with Odysseus (Alcon wounded Laertes.) “By that sore wound which Alcon dealt to him In the grim fight around dead Aeacas' son”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.