Podes
≈ 1 min read
Names in other languages
No names in other languages are held for this entry yet.
Article bodies are English and are not machine-translated. A name in another language is not a translation of the article.
In Greek mythology, Podes ( ) was the son of Eetion, and thus the brother of Andromache, the wife of Hector, whom he is said to have been a feast friend of.
In Greek mythology, Podes ( ) was the son of Eetion, and thus the brother of Andromache, the wife of Hector, whom he is said to have been a feast friend of. ==Traditional treatment== Podes fought on the side of the Trojans in the Trojan War, and was killed by Menelaus. However, in Book 6 of the Iliad, Andromache claims that her seven brothers have been killed by Achilles. This contradiction is not resolved. According to Athenaeus, the term feast friend was more akin to a parasite and flatterer, which is why it was symbolic for Menelaus to wound him in the stomach. ==Note== Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Text derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377987032 under CC BY-SA 4.0; modifications have been made.