Las

Role: founder of the town · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 24

Life events

• Patroclus, rather than Achilles, killed Las.(Book 3 · Chapter 24)
  • With: Patroclus
  • “But to speak truth it was Patroclus that killed Las”

Book 3 · Chapter 24

• with Achilles (The passage gives the tradition that Achilles killed Las.) “This Las they say was the founder of the town, and was killed by Achilles, who they say came to their town to ask Helen in marriage of Tyndareus.”
• with Patroclus (The narrator presents Patroclus as the actual killer of Las.) “But to speak truth it was Patroclus that killed Las: for it was he that wooed Helen.”

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