Peirasus

Family: The Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: Book XI · Part 1

Life events

• Philoctetes wounded Peirasus with an arrow, and a Danaan beheaded him.(Book XI · Part 1)
  • With: Philoctetes
  • “There Philoctetes with his deadly shaft Smote Peirasus in act to flee the war: The tendons twain behind the knee it snapped, And palsied all his speed. A Danaan marked, And leapt on that maimed man with sweep of sword Shearing his neck through.”

Book XI · Part 1

• with Philoctetes (interaction) “There Philoctetes with his deadly shaft Smote Peirasus in act to flee the war:”

Also listed in The Trojans — Minor Figures

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