Medon

Family: The Trojans · Role: cunning craftsman · First appears: Book VIII · Part 2

Life events

• Cytherea deflected Philoctetes' shaft from Aeneas, but it struck and killed Medon.(Book XI · Part 3 · 📍 the tower)
  • With: Philoctetes Aeneas Aphrodite
  • “Aimed at that glorious hero, neither missed The man: yet not through his unyielding targe To the fair flesh it won, being turned aside By Cytherea and the shield, but grazed The buckler lightly: yet not all in vain Fell earthward, but between the targe and helm Smote Medon: from the tower he fell”

Book VIII · Part 2

• child: Menalcas “Menalcas lord of spears, Whom Iphianassa bare by the haunted foot Of Cilla to the cunning craftsman Medon. In the home-land afar the sire abode,”

Book X · Part 1

• child: Zechis “Teucer slew Zechis, Medon's war-famed son,”

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.