Ascalaphus

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

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Ascalaphus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Ascalaphus)

BOOK II

• parent: Mars “Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Mars, led the people that dwelt in Aspledon and Orchomenus the realm of Minyas.”
• siblings with Ialmenus “Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Mars”
• parent: Astyoche “Astyoche a noble maiden bore them in the house of Actor son of Azeus”

BOOK XIII

• parent: Mars “Deiphobus aimed a spear at him as he was retreating slowly from the field, for his bitterness against him was as fierce as ever, but again he missed him, and hit Ascalaphus, the son of Mars”

BOOK XV

• parent: Mars “Mars, I take it, has had a taste of them already, for his son Ascalaphus has fallen in battle—the man whom of all others he loved most dearly and whose father he owns himself to be.”

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