Adrestus
Family: Trojan · Role: commander · First appears: BOOK II
Life events
- Agamemnon kills Adrestus after persuading Menelaus to reject his plea for mercy.(BOOK VI)
BOOK II
- parent: Merops “These were the sons of Merops of Percote, who excelled in all kinds of divination.”
- siblings with Amphius “These were led by Adrestus and Amphius, whose breastplate was of linen. These were the sons of Merops of Percote”
BOOK V
- child: Aegialeia “his brave wife Aegialeia, daughter of Adrestus”
BOOK VI
- with Menelaus (Menelaus captured Adrestus.) “Then Menelaus of the loud war-cry took Adrestus alive”
- with Agamemnon (Agamemnon killed Adrestus.) “Menelaus, therefore, thrust Adrestus from him, whereon King Agamemnon struck him in the flank, and he fell”
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