Idaios (son of Dares)

Idaios ( Greek  Ἰδαῖος ) was a participant in the Trojan War in Greek mythology .

He was the son of Dares , a priest of Hephaestus in Troy . He was the brother of Phegeus , who died at the hand of Diomedes in one of the following fights , while Idaios himself escaped. The scholia to Homer condemn the flight of Idaios as a violation of the customs of the Greeks.

Remarks

1. ↑ Homer Iliad 5: 9-24.
2. ↑ Scholien zu Homer, Iliad 5, 542.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Idaios 5 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 95 ( digitized version ).