Talthybius

Family: Achaeans · Role: messenger · First appears: BOOK I

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

Life events

• Achilles releases Briseis to Agamemnon’s heralds, despite her reluctance to leave.(BOOK I · 📍 the tents and ships of the Myrmidons)
  • With: Achilles Briseis Patroclus Eurybates
  • “Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bidden him. He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans—and the woman was loth to go.”

BOOK I

• employer: Agamemnon “called his trusty messengers and squires Talthybius and Eurybates”

BOOK III

• employer: Agamemnon “Agamemnon told Talthybius to fetch the other lamb from the ships, and he did as Agamemnon had said.”
• with Agamemnon (interaction) “Agamemnon told Talthybius to fetch the other lamb from the ships, and he did as Agamemnon had said.”

BOOK IV

• with Machaon (interaction) “Talthybius, tell Machaon, son to the great physician, Aesculapius, to come and see Menelaus immediately.”
• employer: Agamemnon “He then said to Talthybius, “Talthybius, tell Machaon”

BOOK VII

• with Idaeus (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”

BOOK XIX

• employer: Agamemnon “furthermore let Talthybius find me a boar from those that are with the host, and make it ready for sacrifice to Jove and to the sun.”

BOOK XXIII

• employer: Agamemnon “King Agamemnon assented. So he gave the bronze spear to Meriones, and handed the goodly cauldron to Talthybius his esquire.”

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