Caletor

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Kaletor ( ancient Greek Καλήτωρ ) is the son of Clytius in Greek mythology , thus a grandson of the king of Troy , Laomedon , and cousin of Hector . According to Pausanias, his sister was Prokleia .

While trying to set the Greek ships on fire during the Trojan War , he who threw the first torch was killed with a spear by the Telamonian Aias . Hector, painfully affected by the loss of his cousin, tried to take revenge with a javelin against Aias, but only hit his follower Lycophron fatally on the head.

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  1. Homer , Iliad 15,419; Pausanias 10.14.2.
  2. Homer, Iliad 15: 422-435.