Medon

Family: Achaean · Role: acting commander · First appears: BOOK II

Life events

• Philoctetes is abandoned on Lemnos after a poisonous snake bite, and Medon leads his forces.(BOOK II · 📍 Island of Lemnos)
  • With: Philoctetes
  • “Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans left him”

BOOK II

• parent: Oileus “Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.”
• parent: Rhene “Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.”

BOOK XIII

• parent: Oileus “Medon was bastard son to Oileus and brother of Ajax”

BOOK XV

• parent: Oileus “The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax”
• siblings with Ajax son of Telamon “The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax”
• enemies with Aeneas “Aeneas killed Medon and Iasus.”

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