Teucer

Also known as: King Teucer / son of Telamon · Family: Achaeans · Role: warrior · First appears: BOOK VI

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Teucer) · The Aeneid (as Teucer) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Teucer) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Teucer)

In Book VI, Teucer is named alongside Aretaon. In Book VIII, he is identified as Telamon’s son, raised and cared for by him as a child, and as the brother of Ajax son of Telamon. He kills Archeptolemus, Orsilochus, Ormenus, Ophelestes, Daetor, Chromius, Lycophontes, Amopaon, Melanippus, Gorgythion, and Archeptolemus; after Hector shatters his arm, men of Ajax son of Telamon carry him back to the ships. Agamemnon promises him the next best share of honour after his own if the city is sacked.

In Book XII, Teucer wounds Glaucus, making him abandon his attack on the wall, and hits Sarpedon with an arrow; Pandion carries his bow, and he is named to go with Ajax son of Telamon. In Book XIII, he kills Imbrius with a spear beneath the ear. In Book XV, he aims another arrow at Hector, but the account says it would have ended the fighting at the ships if he had hit him. In Book XXIII, he competes with Meriones: Meriones kills the pigeon after Teucer cuts its tether, winning the ten double-edged axes, while Teucer takes the single-edged ones.