Meges
Meges ( ancient Greek Μέγης ) is in Greek mythology a grandson of Augeias and son of the Phyleus, who was friendly to Heracles and therefore driven away by his father .
Meges is counted among the suitors of Helen and was therefore one of the heroes who went to the Trojan War with the Greek army. He commanded a contingent of Epieres who had moved to Dulichion and led 40 ships from Dulichion and the Echin Islands (probably identical to the Echinades ) off Troy . The Iliad often praises his militant feats. Pedaios , a son of Antenor, also fell from his hand . According to Quintus of Smyrna , he was one of the Greeks who climbed the Trojan Horse . A picture of Polygnot showed, among other things, a scene from the Little Iliad , after which Meges was injured by the Augeias son, Admetus . On the way home, Meges and Prothoos were shipwrecked on the southeastern cape of Evia called Caphereus and drowned. Aristotle wrote an epitaph about the two victims . According to another version, Meges is said to have died in the battle for Troy.
The asteroid (4833) Meges is named after the mythological Troy fighter .
literature
- Meges . In: Wilhelm Vollmer (Hrsg.): Dictionary of Mythology , 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1874, p. 327.
- Adolf Schirmer: Meges 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2547 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans von Geisau : Meges. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 1154.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 10, 8.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 13:692.
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 2, 625ff.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 15, 528ff. and 19, 238ff.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 5:69.
- ↑ Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 12, 326.
- ^ Pausanias , Helládos Periēgēsis 10, 25, 5.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus , Epitome 6, 15a.
- ↑ Aristotle, Pepl. 25th
- ↑ Dictys Cretensis 3, 10.