Polydamas
Also known as: Polydamas son of Panthous / son of Panthous · Family: Trojan · Role: warrior and counsellor · First appears: BOOK XII
In Book XII, Polydamas went to Hector with the Trojan and allied captains, and youths were led on by Polydamas and Hector. In Book XIII, Hector was pleased by Polydamas’s words, though Polydamas told him, “there is no persuading you to take advice.”
In Book XIV, Polydamas is identified as the son of Panthous. He avenged Prothoenor by wounding him; in Book XV, he killed Mecisteus and Otus, and in Book XVII a spear he threw grazed Peneleos’s bone. At daybreak in Book XVIII, Polydamas counselled retreat, but Hector rejected the advice and ordered the Trojans to fight around the ships.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hector rejects Polydamas's retreat counsel and orders the Trojans to fight around the ships.(BOOK XVIII)
- With: Hector
- “At daybreak we will arm and fight about the ships; granted that Achilles has again come forward to defend them, let it be as he will, but it shall go hard with him.”
BOOK XII
- with Hector (interaction) “Then Polydamas went up to Hector and said, “Hector, and you other captains of the Trojans and allies”
- with Hector (interaction) “the youths who were led on by Polydamas and Hector”
BOOK XIII
- friends with Hector “Thus spoke Polydamas, and his words pleased Hector well”
- pupil: Hector “Hector, there is no persuading you to take advice”
BOOK XIV
- parent: Panthous “Polydamas son of Panthous”
- enemies with Prothoenor “Polydamas son of Panthous drew near to avenge him, and wounded Prothoenor son of Areilycus”
- with Hector (interaction) “the princes Polydamas, Aeneas, Agenor, Sarpedon captain of the Lycians, and noble Glaucus”
BOOK XV
- parent: Panthous “Apollo would not suffer the son of Panthous to fall in battle”
- enemies with Mecisteus “Polydamas killed Mecisteus, and Polites Echius”
- enemies with Otus “Polydamas killed Otus of Cyllene”
BOOK XVI
- parent: Panthous “Polydamas son of Panthous”
BOOK XVII
- with Peneleos (interaction) “a spear thrown by Polydamas had grazed the top of the bone”
BOOK XVIII
- friends with Hector “Polydamas son of Panthous was first to speak, a man of judgement, who alone among them could look both before and after. He was comrade to Hector”
- parent: Panthous “Polydamas son of Panthous was first to speak”
BOOK XXII
- with Hector (interaction) “Polydamas will be the first to heap reproach upon me, for it was he that urged me to lead the Trojans back to the city”
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