Podarces
Family: The Greeks · Role: warrior · First appears: Book I · Part 3
In Book I, Part 3, Podarces is named as the son of Iphiclus and the brother of Protesilaus, “no less mighty” than his hero-brother. He killed Clonie with a lance, but Penthesileia wounded him with her spear, and he died shortly afterward in his friends’ arms.
By Book I, Part 7, Penthesileia’s spear had killed Podarces. The Argives buried him apart from the other slain, raising a mound in his memory.
Relationship record
Life events
- Podarces killed Clonie with a lance.(Book I · Part 3)
- With: Clonie
- “Swiftly at Clonie he hurled, the maid Fair as a Goddess: plunged the unswerving lance 'Twixt hip and hip, and rushed the dark blood forth After the spear, and all her bowels gushed out.”
- Penthesileia wounded Podarces, who died shortly afterward.(Book I · Part 3)
- With: Penthesileia
- “And in his friends' arms died in little space.”
- Penthesileia killed Podarces with her spear.(Book I · Part 7)
- With: Penthesileia
- “So Podarces now, Struck down by Penthesileia's spear, hath cast Over all Argive hearts the pall of grief.”
- The Argives buried Podarces in a separate mound.(Book I · Part 7)
- “Wherefore apart from him they laid in clay The common throng of slain; but over him Toiling they heaped an earth-mound far-descried In memory of a warrior aweless-souled.”
Book I · Part 3
- parent: Iphiclus “Then was Podarces, son of Iphiclus,”
- with Clonie (Podarces struck Clonie.) “Swiftly at Clonie he hurled, the maid Fair as a Goddess: plunged the unswerving lance 'Twixt hip and hip”
- with Penthesileia (Penthesileia wounded Podarces.) “Then wroth was Penthesileia; through the brawn Of his right arm she drave the long spear's point,”
Book I · Part 7
- siblings with Protesilaus (They are described as brothers.) “Was no less mighty than his hero-brother Protesilaus,”
- with Penthesileia (Penthesileia killed Podarces.) “Struck down by Penthesileia's spear, hath cast Over all Argive hearts the pall of grief.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.