Greek — Minor Figures

11 figures from Hesiod and Homerica who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Ileus

father of Aias · first appears The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100

• The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100 · courtship with Apollo “Ileus whom the lord Apollo, son of Zeus, loved.”
• The Sack of Ilium · child: Locrian Aias “Aias the son of Ileus”

Lycomedes

father of Deidameia · first appears The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80 · admired: Helen “There came also by ship from Crete to the house of the son of Oebalus strong Lycomedes for rich-haired Helen’s sake.”
• The Cypria · Part 1 · child: Deidameia “Achilles first puts in at Scyros and married Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes”

Pleisthenes son of Helen

child of Helen · first appears The Cypria · Part 1

• The Cypria · Part 1 · parent: Helen “The writer of the Cyprian histories says that (Helen’s third child was) Pleisthenes”

Deidameia

daughter of Lycomedes · first appears The Cypria · Part 1

• The Cypria · Part 1 · parent: Lycomedes “Achilles first puts in at Scyros and married Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes”
• The Cypria · Part 1 · married with Achilles “Achilles first puts in at Scyros and married Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes”

Acamas

son of Theseus · first appears The Sack of Ilium

• The Sack of Ilium · parent: Theseus “the Sons of Theseus”

Demophon

son of Theseus · first appears The Sack of Ilium

• The Sack of Ilium · parent: Theseus “the followers of Acamus and Demophon”

Locrian Aias

son of Ileus · first appears The Sack of Ilium

• The Sack of Ilium · parent: Ileus “Aias the son of Ileus”

Machaon

physician · first appears The Sack of Ilium

• The Sack of Ilium · parent: the famous Earth-Shaker “For their father the famous Earth-Shaker gave both of them gifts, making each more glorious than the other.”
• The Sack of Ilium · siblings with Podaleirius “For their father the famous Earth-Shaker gave both of them gifts, making each more glorious than the other.”

Podaleirius

physician · first appears The Sack of Ilium

• The Sack of Ilium · parent: the famous Earth-Shaker “For their father the famous Earth-Shaker gave both of them gifts, making each more glorious than the other.”
• The Sack of Ilium · siblings with Machaon “For their father the famous Earth-Shaker gave both of them gifts, making each more glorious than the other.”

the daughter of Lycus (The Cypria · Part 1)

daughter of Lycus · first appears The Cypria · Part 1

• The Cypria · Part 1 · parent: Lycus “how Epopeus was utterly destroyed after seducing the daughter of Lycus”

Lycus

father of the daughter of Lycus · first appears The Cypria · Part 1

• The Cypria · Part 1 · child: the daughter of Lycus (The Cypria · Part 1) “how Epopeus was utterly destroyed after seducing the daughter of Lycus”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.