Idaeus

Family: Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: BOOK V

Life events

Priam prepares a ransom and departs Ilius with Idaeus to recover Hector’s body.(BOOK XXIV · 📍 Ilius)
- With: Priam Hecuba Hector
- “The old man made haste to mount his chariot, and drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.”
Mercury escorts Priam safely through the Achaean camp and brings him inside Achilles’s dwelling.(BOOK XXIV · 📍 the ships of the Achaeans)
- With: Mercury Priam
- “Then he drew back the bolts to open the gates, and took Priam inside with the treasure he had upon his waggon.”

parent: Dares “He had two sons, Phegeus and Idaeus”
siblings with Phegeus “He had two sons, Phegeus and Idaeus, both of them skilled in all the arts of war.”
with Vulcan (interaction) “whereon Vulcan saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness”
guardian: Vulcan “whereon Vulcan saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness”

with Talthybius (interaction) “had not heralds, messengers of gods and men, come forward, one from the Trojans and the other from the Achaeans—Talthybius and Idaeus both of them honourable men”

employer: Priam “But Priam and Idaeus as they showed out upon the plain did not escape the ken of all-seeing Jove”

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