Automedon (son of Diores)
Henri Regnault : Automedon with the horses of Achilles (1868)
Automedon ( Greek Αὐτομέδων ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
Automedon was the son of Diores and moved with ten ships from Skyros towards Troy . He was considered the charioteer of Achilles and at the same time seemed to have been a close confidante of his friend Patroklos . He is often mentioned in the saga of the Trojan War and characterized as a brave hero, for example in the fight with Aretus , the son of Priam , and in the storming of the fortress of Ilion . According to the pseudo-Aristotelian peplos , he was buried in the Troas .
His name was often representative of the charioteer.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Automedon 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 737 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 97.
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 16,148. 219 ( memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); 17.429. 459,536 ( Memento dated May 31, 2010 on the Internet Archive ); 24,574. ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Virgil , Aeneid 2,476 ; Quintus of Smyrna , Posthomerica 9,213. 225
- ^ Pseudo-Aristotle, Peplos 38.
- ^ Cicero , per Q. Roscio comoedo 35, 98; Ovid , Ars amatoria 2,738; Juvenal 1.61; Ausonius , epistulae 14.10.