Meges

Meges was the son of King Phyleus of DulichiumHomer, Iliad 2.627 and his mother's name is variously given as either Eustyoche,Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/216#97 97] Ctimene,Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad [https://archive.org/details/commentariiadho01eust/page/246/mode/1up?view=theater p. 305.15]; Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 577; Grimal, p. [https://archive.org/details/grimal-pierre.-diccionario-de-mitologia-griega-y-romana-ocr-1981/page/339/mode/1up?view=theater 340] Ctesimache,Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 577 HagneteTzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 576 or Timandra.Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad [https://archive.org/details/commentariiadho01eust/page/246/mode/1up?view=theater p. 305.17]; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n157/mode/1up?view=theater 249] = Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 176 (no. 46 in the Loeb edition, 1914)

Meges’ (half-)sister was Eurydameia, mother of Cleitus and Euchenor by the seer Polyidus of Corinth.Pherecydes in Scholia ad Homer, Iliad [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain01homegoog/page/46/mode/1up?view=theater 13.663]

Meges was one of the suitors of Helen,Apollodorus, 3.10.8 and commanded the armies of the Echinadians and the Dulichians during the Trojan War, having summoned forty or sixty ships; he also led a contingent of Epeans who had once migrated to Dulichium together with his father.Homer, Iliad 2.625, 5.69, 13.692 & 15.531; Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 284; Hyginus, Fabulae 97

Meges was credited with killing a number of opponents, including Pedaeus (a son of Antenor),Homer, Iliad 5.69 Croesmus,Homer, Iliad 15.523 Amphiclus,Homer, Iliad 16.313 Itymoneus, Agelaus,Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.279 Eurymenes,Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.108 and Deiopites.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.212 Dolops attempted to strike him with a spear but the corselet Meges was wearing, a gift for his father from Euphetes of Ephyra, saved his life.Homer, Iliad 15.525 ff. Meges helped Odysseus to collect gifts for Achilles.Homer, Iliad 19.239 ff. He was one of the men to enter the Trojan Horse.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 12.326

According to Dictys Cretensis, Meges fell at Troy.Dictys Cretensis, 3.10 Pausanias mentions a painting of him wounded in the arm by a Trojan, Admetes the son of Augeas.Pausanias, 10.25.5 Tzetzes relates that Meges, along with Prothous and a number of others, perished at Euboea.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 902

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