Dolon

Family: Trojans · Role: scout · First appears: BOOK X

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Dolon) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Dolon)

Life events

• Hector sends Dolon to scout the Achaean ships, promising him Rhesus’s chariot and horses.(BOOK X)
  • With: Hector
  • “When he had done speaking Hector held up his sceptre, and swore him his oath”
• Ulysses and Diomed capture Dolon, who reveals the Trojan and Thracian dispositions.(BOOK X)
  • With: Ulysses Diomed
  • “The two came breathless up to him and seized his hands, whereon he began to weep”
• Diomed kills Dolon after extracting his intelligence about Rhesus and the Thracian camp.(BOOK X)
  • With: Diomed
  • “Diomed struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews”

BOOK X

• parent: Eumedes “a certain man named Dolon, son of Eumedes, the famous herald”
• employer: Hector “Hector, with his vain flattering promises, lured me from my better judgement. He said he would give me the horses of the noble son of Peleus and his bronze-bedizened chariot; he bade me go through the darkness of the flying night, get close to the enemy, and find out whether the ships are still guarded as heretofore”
• enemies with Diomed “when, however, they were only a spear’s cast, or less, away from him, he saw that they were enemies and ran as fast as his legs could take him”
• enemies with Ulysses “when, however, they were only a spear’s cast, or less, away from him, he saw that they were enemies and ran as fast as his legs could take him”

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.