Aretus (son of Priam)
Aretus ( Greek Ἄρητος ) is in Greek mythology a son of the Trojan king Priam .
In Homer's Iliad he fights the Achaeans in the Trojan War , where he is protected by a leather shield. He and Hector want to kidnap Achilles ' horses, but Automedon's spear effortlessly penetrates his shield and the belt below. Aretos has to be left behind on the battlefield by his comrades because of the strength of the enemy, whereupon he dies. Automedon takes his weapons. In the library of Apollodorus and Hyginus Mythographus he is mentioned in catalogs of the children of Priam, whose mother is not known by name. At Dictys Cretensis , Aretos dies together with his brother Echemon at the hand of Odysseus .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Aretos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 495 ( digitized ).
- Ulrich Hoefer : Aretos 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 682.