Charops (son of Hippasus)

Charops ( Greek  Χάροψ ) is a Trojan fighter in Greek mythology in the Trojan War .

In Homer's Iliad he is the son of Hippasus and the brother of Sokos . He and his brother are killed by Odysseus in front of Troy .

A figure of Charops is on a Chalcidian amphora from the 6th century BC. To find where he is slain by Diomedes .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Charops 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 886 ( digitized version ).
• Carl Robert : Charops 6th In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2185.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homer Iliad 11, 426 f.
2. ^ Ovid Metamorphoses 13, 260
3. ^ John Boardman :  Diomedes 1, No. 19 . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume III, Zurich / Munich 1986, p. 400.