Idaios (Herald of the Trojans)

Idaios ( Greek  Ἰδαῖος ) was in Greek mythology the herald and charioteer of King Priam in the Trojan War .

He passed on to the Greeks the offer of Paris and with it the Trojans , not Helena (mythology) , but instead the treasures that Paris brought from Argos and even more to give away to end the war or at least obtain a ceasefire for the burial of the dead .

Perhaps he is identical to Idaios , the son of the Trojan Hephaestus priest Dares .

swell

• Homer Iliad III 248; VII 276, 381, 413; XXIV 325
• Virgil Aeneid VI 485
• Johannes Tzetzes antehomerica 166, 311

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Idaios 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 95 ( digitized version ).