Pandarus

Also known as: son of Lycaon · Family: Trojan · Role: commander · First appears: BOOK II

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Pandarus)

Life events

• Minerva disguises herself as Laodocus and persuades Pandarus to shoot Menelaus.(BOOK IV · 📍 Aesopus)
  • With: Minerva Laodocus
  • “Thus did they converse. Then Minerva took the form of Laodocus, son of Antenor, and went through the ranks of the Trojans to find Pandarus, the redoubtable son of Lycaon.”
• Pandarus violates the oaths by shooting and wounding Menelaus with an arrow.(BOOK IV)
  • With: Menelaus
  • “He laid the notch of the arrow on the ox-hide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrow-head was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a half-circle he let fly, and the bow twanged, and the string sang as the arrow flew gladly on over the heads of the throng.”
• Pandarus’s arrow wounds Diomed in the shoulder.(BOOK V)
  • With: Diomed
  • “Now when the son of Lycaon saw him scouring the plain and driving the Trojans pell-mell before him, he aimed an arrow and hit the front part of his cuirass near the shoulder: the arrow went right through the metal and pierced the flesh, so that the cuirass was covered with blood.”
• Diomed kills Pandarus with a spear thrust through the face.(BOOK V)
  • With: Diomed
  • “With this he hurled his spear, and Minerva guided it on to Pandarus’s nose near the eye. It went crashing in among his white teeth; the bronze point cut through the root of his tongue, coming out under his chin, and his glistening armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.”

BOOK II

• parent: Lycaon “these were led by Pandarus son of Lycaon, whom Apollo had taught to use the bow.”

BOOK IV

• with Minerva (interaction) “Then Minerva took the form of Laodocus, son of Antenor, and went through the ranks of the Trojans to find Pandarus, the redoubtable son of Lycaon.”
• parent: Lycaon “Then Minerva took the form of Laodocus, son of Antenor, and went through the ranks of the Trojans to find Pandarus, the redoubtable son of Lycaon.”
• with Menelaus (interaction) “If you dare send an arrow at Menelaus you will win honour and thanks from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexandrus—he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaus mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.”

BOOK V

• parent: Lycaon “the son of Lycaon”
• enemies with Diomed “With this he hurled his spear, and Minerva guided it on to Pandarus’s nose near the eye.”

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