Xanthus (horse of Achilles)

Also known as: Xanthus · Family: divine · Role: horse · First appears: BOOK XVI

Life events

• Xanthus reveals that Leto’s son killed Patroclus and foretells Achilles’s approaching death.(BOOK XIX)
  • With: Achilles Patroclus Leto
  • “it was the mighty god whom lovely Leto bore that slew him as he fought among the foremost, and vouchsafed a triumph to Hector. We two can fly as swiftly as Zephyrus who they say is fleetest of all winds; nevertheless it is your doom to fall by the hand of a man and of a god.”
• Achilles mounts his chariot and drives toward the front to attack the Trojans.(BOOK XIX)
  • With: Achilles Automedon Balius
  • “So saying, with a loud cry he drove his horses to the front.”

BOOK XVI

• parent: Podarge “these were they whom the harpy Podarge bore to the west wind”

BOOK XIX

• parent: Podarge “Xanthus and Balius, famed offspring of Podarge”
• with Achilles (interaction) “we will indeed save you now, but the day of your death is near”
• with Juno (interaction) “for white-armed Juno had endowed him with human speech”

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