Polypoetes

Family: Achaean · Role: commander · First appears: BOOK II

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

In Book II, Polypoetes is identified as the son of Pirithous, and Hippodameia is said to have borne him to Pirithous. In Book VI, he kills Astyalus; in Book XII, he kills Damasus, Pylon, and Ormenus in battle. By Book XXIII, he rises among the rivals alongside Leonteus, Ajax son of Telamon, and Epeus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Polypoetes kills Damasus, Pylon, and Ormenus in battle.(BOOK XII)
  • With: Damasus Pylon Ormenus
  • “Thereon Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous, hit Damasus with a spear upon his cheek-pierced helmet. The helmet did not protect him, for the point of the spear went through it, and broke the bone, so that the brain inside was scattered about, and he died fighting. He then slew Pylon and Ormenus.”

BOOK II

• parent: Pirithous “brave Polypoetes was leader. He was son of Pirithous, who was son of Jove himself”
• parent: Hippodameia “for Hippodameia bore him to Pirithous on the day when he took his revenge on the shaggy mountain savages”

BOOK VI

• with Astyalus (Polypoetes killed Astyalus.) “Polypoetes then killed Astyalus”

BOOK XII

• parent: Pirithous “Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous”
• with Leonteus (interaction) “two of the bravest chieftains, proud sons of the fighting Lapithae—the one, Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous, and the other Leonteus”
• enemies with Damasus “Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous, hit Damasus with a spear”
• enemies with Pylon “He then slew Pylon and Ormenus”
• enemies with Ormenus “He then slew Pylon and Ormenus”

BOOK XXIII

• rivals with Leonteus “Then uprose the two mighty men Polypoetes and Leonteus”
• rivals with Ajax son of Telamon “Then uprose the two mighty men Polypoetes and Leonteus, with Ajax son of Telamon and noble Epeus”
• rivals with Epeus “Then uprose the two mighty men Polypoetes and Leonteus, with Ajax son of Telamon and noble Epeus”

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