Bathycles (mythology)

Bathykles ( Greek  Βαθυκλῆς ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

Bathycles was a hero before Troy and fought on the side of the Greeks . He was the son of Chalcon and, like this Myrmidon , belonged to the contingent led by Achilles in the Trojan War . In the fierce battle for the armor of the Lycian general Sarpedon , who has just fallen , in which Patroclus will also find death in Achilles' armor, Bathycles is killed by the hand of the Lycian king Glaukos with a lance in the chest.

source

• Homer , Iliad 16,594-601

literature

• Ulrich Hoefer : Bathykles 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, column 124.