Automedon
Also known as: Automedon son of Diores · Family: Achaeans · Role: squire · First appears: BOOK XVI
Automedon is Achilles’s squire, whom Achilles honours next after himself and relies on in battle. In Book XVII, Automedon names Alcimedon son of Laerces as the only one besides the dead Patroclus able to guide the immortal horses as well as he can, and fights Aretus, whose shield his spear pierces.
In Book XIX, Automedon and Alcimus harness Achilles’s horses before Achilles drives toward the front to attack the Trojans. In Book XXIII, Achilles calls Automedon his comrade and asks him to bring the breastplate from his tent.
Relationship record
Life events
- Achilles mounts his chariot and drives toward the front to attack the Trojans.(BOOK XIX)
- With: Achilles Xanthus (horse of Achilles) Balius
- “So saying, with a loud cry he drove his horses to the front.”
BOOK XVI
- with Achilles (interaction) “he was the man whom he held in honour next after Achilles, and on whose support in battle he could rely most firmly”
- employer: Achilles “He bade Automedon yoke his horses with all speed, for he was the man whom he held in honour next after Achilles”
BOOK XVII
- friends with Alcimedon son of Laerces “Alcimedon, there is no one else who can control and guide the immortal steeds so well as you can, save only Patroclus—while he was alive”
- enemies with Aretus “the spear struck the round shield of Aretus, and went right through it”
- friends with Patroclus “save only Patroclus—while he was alive—peer of gods in counsel”
- with Aretus (interaction) “the spear struck the round shield of Aretus, and went right through it”
BOOK XIX
- with Achilles (interaction) “Automedon and Alcimus busied themselves with the harnessing of his horses”
BOOK XXIII
- employer: Achilles “He bade his comrade Automedon bring the breastplate from his tent, and he did so.”
- friends with Achilles “He bade his comrade Automedon bring the breastplate from his tent”
BOOK XXIV
- with Achilles (interaction) “only two, the hero Automedon, and Alcimus of the race of Mars, were busy in attendance about his person”
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