Polydorus

Family: Trojans · Role: prince · First appears: BOOK XX

Life events

Achilles kills Polydorus, Priam’s youngest and favored son, with a spear through the back.(BOOK XX)
- With: Achilles
- “Achilles struck him in the middle of the back as he was darting past him: he struck him just at the golden fastenings of his belt and where the two pieces of the double breastplate overlapped. The point of the spear pierced him through and came out by the navel, whereon he fell groaning on to his knees and a cloud of darkness overshadowed him as he sank holding his entrails in his hands.”

parent: Priam (Priam is Polydorus’s father.) “Achilles then went in pursuit of Polydorus son of Priam, whom his father had always forbidden to fight because he was the youngest of his sons”
siblings with Hector (Hector and Polydorus are brothers.) “When Hector saw his brother Polydorus with his entrails in his hands and sinking down upon the ground”
enemies with Achilles “Achilles then went in pursuit of Polydorus son of Priam”

parent: Priam “Your spear slew noble Polydorus as he was fighting in the front ranks”
parent: Laothoe “Priam married his daughter along with many other women and two sons were born of her, both of whom you will have slain. Your spear slew noble Polydorus”

parent: Priam “even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus”
parent: Laothoe “Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoe peeress among women bore me”

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